the lunch tradition

We changed the venue, but continued our tradition of a childless lunch on the first day of school.  Today, we met at our favorite Thai restaurant for Bento Boxes for lunch.  You can see, Lew doesn't like green onions.  Otherwise, we left maybe 5 grains of rice.  Probably, had we not been seated by the front of the restaurant, we'd have literally licked the plates clean.  But, somehow, we showed amazing restraint.

After lunch, I did some child-free shopping and then headed over to pick them up.  Their teacher from last year was working the parent pick-up line, so they got to briefly tell her how awesome their day was.  She was so amazing, this new teacher has some pretty big shoes to fill, but I think she is up to the challenge.  After picking them up, Gretchen had a PT appointment so we didn't get home until later in the afternoon.  There was a message on the machine from their teacher telling me how awesome the first day was and how much fun she knows they are all going to have this year!

The kids gave me 2 very detailed accounts of the day and the new class rules, procedures and fun things.  They are both super excited to go back tomorrow!!!

And....  for the first week of school... no homework!!!