Well its BACK TO SCHOOL TIME!

Well its back to school time for my kiddo's, actually its first day of Kindergarten for Jack Branson.  It's 1st day of classes for sweet sparklie at college.  We drove out to Amarillo last week get Sparklie all ready for her second year of college.  Now I say we.  What I mean is , I followed Sparklie to college 7 hours on the road.  During this 7 hours, I had to call her several times to tell her to slow down!  This was the conversation.  Sparklie : Hello MOM!
Mom:       Sparklie slow down, I'm not paying another ticket!
Sparklie:  MOmmmmmmmmm I'm only going 74. I have my cruise set.
Mom:        Really there must be something wrong with my car, because my cruise is set on 75 and  I can't even see you there up ahead of me.
Sparklie:  wow must be something wrong then. 
Mom:  I'm tellin you IF YOU GET A TICKET YOU WILL PAY  IT!
Sparklie: CLick!
Mom:   ( some ugly words I should not type) did she hang up on me?

Must have worked because in about oh 5 minutes I'd catch up with her and after about 10 min of driving normal she'd be gone again.... sighs!

Now I realize all you are wondering why 2 cars?  Common sense would say "ride with Sparklie and fly home".  Yes, that would be more efficient.  If you know Sparklie, you realize why I had to drive.  No, I'm not afraid to ride with her.  ( well much)  Yes, I know the way to Borger, Texas.  The problem was none of that.  The issue is Sparklie had too much CRAP!  This being her Sophmore year and all you'd think she had learned to pair it down a bit.  NOPE! We had the things she had to have, the stuff she couldn't live without and the crap she should have left at home!

She did post a picture of all her crap! It stretched down the hall from her bedroom, into the den and stopped just at the front door.  My freinds thats about a huge stretch of house.  TO quote her "mom it looks like a pink zebra threw up".  Yes, friends it did.  We had boxes (packing boxes) of shoes, purses, jewlery, and her trunk and back seat were full of clothes.  We had containers of makeup and other essential stuff.

Packed and ready here we go.  So we get to the red light in Burleson, Texas and my phone rings.  It's Sparklie, she says .... "mom I wish we had walkie talkies then we could talk to each other"?  Really, really, Sparklie i say, "we have cell phones".  To this she replies " oh yeah, never mind"!

Sparklie's pile!

This was going to be a long day.

Fast forward 7 hours.  Here we are Borger, Texas.  Hotel checked into and off to the campus.  All the handy dandy dorm forms filled out.  Thank goodness Sparklie is on the livestock judging team.  Thanks be to gawd there were boys around who liked Sparklie.  I only had to carry a lamp.  THANKS JAKE, JW and whoever that othern was.  So we get the boxes in and begin to unload.  Its not going to fit I say.  Sparklie insist it WILL FIT.  She did it. I have no idea how but she did.  I counted 4 pairs of Sperry's, 4 boot bags, about 100 flip flops, some sandals, some stiletto's and one pair of running shoes.  GEEZ I put up 3 count them 3 bags of jewlery.  Now 3 bags of jewlery does not sound like an excessive amout if you are talking sandwich baggies.  NOOOOOOOOOOOOooo! 3 bags of jewlery ... 3 bags that fold out and contain 12 more bags! That would be 36 containers of Jewlery!~  REally?  Now do you see why I call her sparklie?

So we get this room all set up and I'm pooped.  Sparklie no way is she pooped.  Sparklie is having a rip roarin fit cause her best bud Miss Bailee aka Sparlie Bestie is not on campus yet.  I said well Sparklie it is a long way from UTAH.  Sparklie was under the impression that they should arrive at the same time.  I think she wanted  Bailee's mom to skip Colorado altogether.  She did inform me that they would need help unloading the Trailer!  Seems Baillee brougth all her things in her Horse trailer along with her horses.  ( Bailee is also on the rodeo team and former Miss Rodeo Utah contestant)  I just roll my eyes and say ... Really?

Sparklie AKA Mary Hannah at the "fancy Wal Mart

I was finally able to talk Sparklie into tearing away for some food.  This was a chore as she wanted pink glitter material made into a canopy over her bed.  ( don't even think i didn't do this, you know i did) 

So we get up the next morning and Sparklie needs her 2 hours to get ready.  I have no idea how she woke up so early as she did not come back to the hotel until well after 2.  She did it though and ts off to Amarillo.  We had to go to Amarillo,"its where the fancy walmart is".  ( i'm still laughing about a "fancy walmart")   To Wal Mart to spend the rest of my money.  A refrigerator, and 30 bottles of hairspray along with some pink towels and rug, we were ready.  To check out.  OMG~!  It should not cost so much to be so sparklie.

Well she's in, meal plan is paid.  I'm hoping she eats there at least once this semester.  I'd like to know I at least got one meal out of the $1300.00 meal plan.  It does
not look promising.  I tell ya folks not at all.

So she's at college and I haven't heard from her since.  I did call but she couldn't hear me for the noise.  Seems she was at the bar and you know you just can't talk to your mama from the bar.  To much loud noise from what I understood.

Sweet Darlin's first day of school!

Fast Forward Tuesday, Jack Branson's first day of Kindergarten.  Yes YEs I know I was the OLDEST parent there.  ( I did call my sister Stacey to let her know what to expect when baby Madelyn went to school as she will be old too )  Jack was not looking forward to this school business.  He informed me this morning as he was putting on his freshly ironed new school clothes " i don't need to go to school.  I know how to build lego's"  He's does have a point, I don't think there is a lego buildin class at his school.  I hope his teacher notices his sharply ironed shorts and polo in the uniform colors. I sure hope cause there will be no more ironing of the school cloths.  Gotta look good on the first day cause you can't go lookin all trashy on the first day.  My friend Terri Fulton had to fight he battle with her baby girl Bella.  Seems Bella wanted to wear her princes dress, click clack heels and some lipstick for her first day of school.  Her mama is not going to let her look trashy either.  I saw her picture in a pretty little sundress.  Who knows tomorrow it may be click clack heels.  2nd day ... meh who cares.  Teacher now knows we own an iron.  Dosen't mean I'm ever going to use it again. Heck, I didn't this time.  Dear Hubby did.  See all the military experience came in really handy!  He irons everything!

So we packed Mr. picky eater a lunch and then it hits me oh nooooooooooooo.  Dear hubby left the bran new Buzz Lightyear back pack at school in sweet darlins locker.  Now I say "dear hubby ( you big dummy) he has no back pack.  What is the most important thing to take to school the first day?  Dear hubby looks skeptically at me and says ummmmmm yourself?  NOOOOOOOOOOO NOOOOOOo its a brand new back pack.  Now, our sweet darlin is going to look like we couldn't afford a back pack.  He's stuck with only that ugly Yoda Star Wars lunch box.  Poor darlin is going to have a complex~!

These events seemed to bother me more than Dear hubby ( he don't care if the sun don't shine) and sweet darlin, I don't think he knew he needed a backpack.  So he had to carry his folder and his lunch in his hands.  No backpack!  sighs...

Today was not like when I took Sparklie to Kindergarten.   I got to walk Sparklie to class and see her goodies and meet her teacher.  Nooooooooooooo, we were corralled in this room ( small room) and all the kids had to sit in the floor while parents lined the walls and looked pitiful.  I was not looking pitiful.  NOPE I got a raise today, no more day care at $550 a month! woohooooo I'm lovin this kindergarten!  Now sweet Darlin, he planted his little feet and said ummmm NO.  I had to think quick, I told him its going to be fun and when you get all finished for the day Mommy will be right here to pick you up.  I don't think he believed me.  There was some pushing, prodding and begging but he finally went to sit down.  So Dear Hubby and i waited outside he door.  We waited until his cute little teacher left the room with all her little ones in a line.  As sweet Darlin came out he glared at me. YES GLARED! I told Dear Hubby, o man is he mad!  SO we left and we haven't had a call and its almost time to and pick him up and try to talk him into going back tomorrow.  I took the picture of the first day of school.  I only took 7 tries to talk him into smiling.  This is going to be a challenge I think.  Sparklie was ready to go and begging to go to school from the time she was 3.  Jack not so much!