{"id":1962,"date":"2009-09-08T10:18:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T14:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2009-09-08T10:18:59","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T14:18:59","slug":"kindergarten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2009\/09\/kindergarten\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindergarten!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Carolyn headed off for her first day of Kindergarten!\u00a0 I got up at 6:20, got myself ready and packed a yummy lunch (a ham &amp; cream cheese pinwheel sandwich, baby carrots, grapes, olives, letter pretzels and two tiny vanilla cookies).\u00a0 Then I managed to get the kids dressed early enough that I had time to make chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast, and we still had a good ten minutes before the bus came to snap a few pictures.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1963\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1963\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1963\" title=\"20090908_kindergartner\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/images\/carolyn\/20090908_kindergartner.jpg\" alt=\"Flower Power!\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1963\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flower Power!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She looks all grown up from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2008\/09\/first-day-of-school\/\">last year<\/a>!\u00a0 (Though I said the same thing last year too!)\u00a0 She picked out this dress herself when we went clothes shopping for school, and although it&#8217;s not exactly <em>my<\/em> style, it is pretty darn adorable.<\/p>\n<p>She was so excited to get on that bus she practically skipped down the driveway, and I had to stop her to give her a hug and a kiss and tell her to have a fun day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1964\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1964\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1964\" title=\"20090908_schoolbus\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/images\/carolyn\/20090908_schoolbus.jpg\" alt=\"One Giant Step\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One Giant Step<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t nearly as hard to watch that bus pull away as I thought it would be.\u00a0 I think I already cried all the tears I had to in anticipation of today, and instead I felt excited for her.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t wait for her to come home and tell me how her day went, and whether she found the little note I stuck in her lunchbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Carolyn headed off for her first day of Kindergarten!\u00a0 I got up at 6:20, got myself ready and packed a yummy lunch (a ham &amp; cream cheese pinwheel sandwich, baby carrots, grapes, olives, letter pretzels and two tiny vanilla<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carolyn-firsts","category-carolyn-milestones","category-school-days"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1967,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions\/1967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}