We get to check out Kelly's new school and meet her teacher tonight. We are all QUITE excited (yes, even Kelly!).

She's been chosen to participate in a "looping" program where the students move with their teacher (and I believe their entire class) to the next grade. It's supposed to help ease the transition and helps the students and teacher get to know each other better. After 1st grade, Kelly's teacher will go back to Kindergarten and Kelly will move onto 2nd grade. We'll find out more about the whole thing tonight, but it sounds like a great idea to me.

Thursday we ride the bus to the school for an orientation day. Again...not sure who's more excited -- me, Kelly or Grandma (who will be taking 347 photos of us getting on the bus).

It was another fairly sleepless night last night -- not sure if it's all my anxiety about the changes coming or if it was the four-year-old sleeping between my husband and I who kept kicking all the covers down while I shivered in my tank top and shorts, clinging to my sliver of bed (hey, if you're hot, get out of my bed, kid!).

Sleep may come easier tonight since we may finally have a solution to the after-school bus drop-off. Rather than Dan or I having to rush out of work and get home early, we may send Kelly to our babysitter's house who lives in our school district and currently watches the kids one day a week (grandma watches the other days). It would bring me peace of mind to know that she's going to the same place every day -- a place she is familiar with -- with kids she knows and a babysitter she loves.

Of course, meeting the teacher, seeing the classroom and learning more about Kelly's new school could open a whole new can of worms and leave me tossing and turning again tonight (sheesh...you'd think I was the one going back to school!). That or a four-year-old in hot footie jammies.