All 4 kids have started school.......Now What?

Okay so all four of my kids have now started school. This was not an easy task for me to let happen and I can't say that I am still all that excited about my baby leaving the nest but we all knew it was bound to happen someday. The youngest, Abby Jo, really seems to love it and I can't believe how much easier it has been for her to transform from a preschooler to a kindergarten student than I thought it would be. The other kids have been doing it for a few years but I was also excited to see what they thought of the first day. So after sitting at my office (which many of you know is right next door to the school) all day waiting on them to come bursting through the door, it finally happens and this is what I hear......Mommy hey Mommy hi Mommy you know what Mommy hey Mommy guess what......no kidding.....you know in the movie What Women Want when he can hear all of the women's thoughts around him and it sounds like a beehive? That is exactly what I was hearing only instead of the buzzing sound, it was a Mommmmmmmmmmmy sound...it was crazy! So I finally line them all up and tell them that they each get to tell me one great and one not so great thing about their days. Avery first (Alex was at a friend's house waiting to get taxied to football practice so I didn't get his info until later that night) then Alissa, and finally Abby Jo. Avery who is a year younger than her brother in school, says it was so great mom, remember how last year Alex had to read for an hour every night? Well I only have to read for 30 minutes a night and no weekends and no holidays!!! She was thrilled to say the least and I am pretty sure it was more because she was going to get to share this with Alex (who isn't the most excited about reading) than because she caught a break!! So then comes Alissa who for some odd reason and I really have no idea where she even got it now refers to everyone as her peeps??????? So after reminding her that my name is Mommy as it has been for the last seven years of her life and not peep then she goes on to say that her favorite part of the day was that she loved her teacher and Morgan was there. Morgan is her best friend and Alissa just thinks she is IT!! No matter what you have or have not done or have or have not owned it is just understood in our house that you will NEVER be as nice and kind and beautiful as Morgan is in Alissa's eyes so I was truly not surprised by this statement. Her only bad thing was that the boys had gotten faster over the summer so now when they play chase (which to us 30 somethings is also referred to as tag) the boys actually can catch the girls sometimes and Alissa is not as happy now that she can't beat them all the time. Then comes Abby Jo and for those of you who do not know her, she is a bit, okay a huge serving, of a drama queen. She is funny when she doesn't' mean to be and has the ability to exaggerate immensely if it helps plead her case. So here she comes excited that it is her turn. She shows me her pictures that she made, tells me she can now write her name perfectly (the amazing abilities of a teacher I guess because I have yet to see it perfectly but to her it looks exactly like Mrs. May's so we will just continue to discretely work on that at home), and that her favorite part of the day is nap time. I just kind of sat there looking at her with what must have been one confused look on my face! "Nap time, honey do you mean circle time?" She just looks at me as if to say, I don't think I stuttered and says "no mommy nap time.....it's my favorite, everyday it's going to be my favorite". So I decide to push further knowing that she is not expecting me to not understand why nap time is not automatically her favorite part of the day even though she fights nap time at home as though you were asking her to take a knife and cut off her own hand! So I say "Abby Jo, why is nap time your favorite part of the day"? That's when she looks at me even more confused than I was looking at her and says, "well Mommy, nap time is my favorite time of the day because I am sweepy". Guess that says it all. School is back in session, our schedules are back in turmoil, the kids and I are exhausted and Michael is still trying to figure out which events we are in and where and what comes next!