Today was the first day back to school for the kids! First day for Missy to ride the bus and go to big kids school. She loves kindergarten! And Alex loves first grade. It was pouring most of the day though. I stayed home from work for a couple hours to see everyone off. There is a lot of construction going on right near our house, which means that the bus can't get to our road, so the kids are to walk to a designated spot where an aide walks them across the busy roads to the pick-up point. No aide showed up today so we drove them in the van to the pick-up spot, and waited in the van for the 10-minutes-late bus.