Locker Day!

Hannah will get her school locker assignment today. She took off with some accessories today, little magnetic clips and organizing bins in "dark aquamarine" (translated as blue, but she's on this whole thing of aquamarine being her favorite color). She's going to be a basket case if she decides to go away to college and has a dorm room. I think she has been talking about getting a locker since some time in 5th grade. So many of the 'tween shows center around kids going to their lockers and talking with their friends, I think she sees that as the true mark that she is now a miniature grown up.

I am just PRAYING she doesn't forget to go wherever car-riders need to go this afternoon so I can pick her up for horseback riding. Yesterday she didn't get home until almost 5:30, so there would be no way she'd make it today. I think once the kinks are worked out she would be still pushing it to get home in time for me to take her, but this is pretty much the way it has to go for now. With horseback riding starting at 5 and almost 1/2 an hour away, it just wouldn't happen, not even if she got the 6 pm slot. So, keep your fingers crossed. I was very tempted to write it across her hands in a sharpie so she would have a reminder, but I figured that was tacky.

We got to talk about her first day. She said she knew at least one person in every one of her classes. One was a BFF from her 4th grade class who also went to 4H with her, so that was great. They were in about half of the same classes. She said they got to talk in the hall when they changed classes, she was very happy about that. She and her BFF that ride the bus together had a great time and will be planning after school get togethers since they can get off at each others' stops. It will work out well for me when I have to work late as her friend's mom has already made the offer and Hannah should never have to come home to an empty house, which is a blessing.

Oh, and Hannah has a picture of "cruise boy" framed and ready to stick in her locker. Oh, the romance, oh, the drama.