Displaced Beachbums

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Yesterday was Favorite Girl’s first day at her new school. Her attitude has been wonderful considering this is her third school in three years. I’m glad we’re moving so much when she’s young and hopefully we’ll be settled in one place when she’s in high school.

Children are allowed to walk to school alone but, being the over-protective mom that I am and since we’re about a mile from the school, I will either walk with her or, more likely, drive her.

First impressions of her new teacher are positive. I met with the teacher after class and she mentioned needing parent volunteers. Since I’m actively seeking a job, I didn’t want to commit too much too soon so I said “Yes, I will help when I can. I did a little volunteering in Germany.” Well, FG piped in with “A LITTLE ~ you got an award for all your volunteering last year.” So much for trying to keep a low profile.

In the photo, FG is holding a ‘schultüte” which is a cone filled with goodies i.e. candies, pencils, stickers, fun shaped erasers, etc. The German tradition of the schultüte is: it is given to 1st graders on their first day of school and the children take it to school with them. FG’s cone for her first grade was huge and matched her backpack but other kids, with more creative moms, had home-made cones which were GORGEOUS!

Last year on the first day of second grade, FG’s German nanny Nadja gave her a smaller tüte and this year I continued the tradtion by using the same cone and filling it with goodies. FG was so happy when she saw it. She loves traditions!