Back To School

  • Back To School,  Toddler

    What You Need For Back To School: Nursery/Preschool Edition

    This is going to be Mackenzie’s first year in school & I’ve spent August buying a lot of stuff for her! Since she’s only going to nursery school I didn’t buy a lot of your typical school supplies, but I’ll share what I did buy. Mackenzie is going to school for the morning & will be having lunch there so I needed to buy her stuff for that, but she won’t be napping there so I didn’t need to buy any nap stuff. + backpack– Mackenzie picked out her backpack & my number 1 tip is DO NOT put your child’s name on the outside of their backpack for safety…

  • Back To School,  Parenting,  Toddler

    Back To School Tips for First Time Students

    Here are just a few things I’m doing to prepare Mackenzie for her first school experience. + getting her used to some of the things she’ll be using/seeing when she’s at school like her lunch box, backpack, shoes & things like that + taking tour of her new school before it begins + asking the director of her school for a picture of her teacher so she can get familiar with her face before school begins + reading books that are age appropriate like Daniel Tiger Goes to School & A Kissing Hand for Chester Raccoon + preparing myself for the separation. I’ve only ever been on the other side…