Ready for School

Miss M starts school on Tuesday! She has to be to school by 7:30am, which is early even for my early-riser! Although she'll be eating breakfast at school, I want to make sure she doesn't leave the house with an empty belly, so I'm going to spend this weekend baking delicious, quick breakfasts for her.

I have a whole Preschool Breakfast pinboard full of ideas, but I'm going to start with these three:

Make-Ahead Oatmeal Smoothies (The Yummy Life)

Fruit (Nut, Berry) Whole-Wheat Muffins (100 Days of Real Food)

Breakfast Casserole Bites (100 Days of Real Food)

All of these recipes are new to me, so I'll let you know if any of them don't work for us! I love that they're quick, healthy, and can all be made ahead of time (and frozen!). These will all come in handy once Baby C comes along as well and I have even less time in the morning to get Miss M ready for school!

Two of my other tricks for getting her ready in the morning come from I Can Teach My Child.

Printable Morning Routine Cards & a Hanging Closet Organizer

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One Month More

We have one more month until Miss M starts preschool (my baby!!). One last month of summer. I look back at our summer to-do list and feel like we didn't do anything! The heat was an unexpected obstacle this year (just like the lack of snow this past winter kept us from accomplishing a lot on our winter list). Obviously, I didn't expect to do everything on the list, but I am hoping to pack as much as I can into these last few weeks of summer - both because it's FUN! and also because I'm still feeling good during this pregnancy, and want to take full advantage of it while I can.

The next few months are going to be all about preparation. Preparing for Miss M to start school (though I don't think preschoolers need any supplies or special back-to-school clothes, so really it's more mental/emotional preparation than anything else. And it's probably mostly ME who needs to prepare. I teared up just thinking about taking her picture on the first day! We'll blame pregnancy hormones ...). 

And then there are all the preparations we need to do before Baby C comes along. More mental/emotional preparations, and lots of physical things as well. Tomorrow I start the third trimester. Wow. I've asked J to get out the storage tubs full of baby clothes for me, so I can start washing, etc. We need to put her crib together and set up the pack 'n' play in our room (she'll sleep there for the first few months) so our cat gets used to both. Today I pre-registered at the hospital (!), and we're choosing a date for the hospital tour tonight. We're also hoping to take a refresher childbirth course, if we can find one. It'll be almost four years since Miss M was born, and that labor did not go as planned, so although I think we'll be okay without a class, I also think we'll both feel a bit more ready with one. 

So many big changes in such a short amount of time.

I hope we're ready!