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First day of school for Lexee and Shilo.

I admire how these girls can be totally {stressed out} about getting out the door to arrive at school early enough to "check in" (we missed check in day while we were away last week) and avoid the horrific traffic along the way (read below for more details), and still look so happy for the picture demanded by their mother, who can now breathe a sigh of relief that they are on their way,

and is extremely grateful that one of them can drive and they both attend the same school.
Phew!

The traffic story... an unfinished road improvement project that will be ongoing through the end of the month, making a single lane of traffic (that's single... one... for traffic going both ways... one way at a time... one direction goes, then gets stopped while the other directions goes) as the main access for two (count them, TWO) schools, the high school and the middle school.  And heaven knows, you can't walk to school if it isn't next door (and those kids that do walk back up the traffic even more as they randomly cross the street at their convenience).  The busing situation is a nightmare too, thanks to those good ol' school district cutbacks.  So most parents drive their kids to school, except for the growing number of student drivers out there, which doesn't improve the traffic situation.  Who schedules those road improvement projects anyway?  In my mind, it seems like important things such as the beginning of school for 6 grades, and access to the schools those grades attend, would play a vital role in the scheduled date of completion of a road project.  It seems so simple.  The schools have requested patience, so I've been taking some deep breaths.