Kayleigh's new school and conversation afterwards

We had Kayleigh's open house last night at her new school. We are very excited about her attending Quest this year. The principal spoke for a few minutes at the beginning to give a few updates. The biggest one was that they will not be able to serve hot lunch for the first 2-4 weeks of school, so everyone will be bringing lunch from home. They are still waiting for some of the serving equipment to be delivered.

Kayleigh's teacher seems great and exactly what she needs. We are sure that this year will be much better than last year. I was able to speak with her teacher without Kayleigh around for a few minutes to let her know some of our concerns about last year and this year. Her classroom even has a blog. They will not be posting pictures of the students, but they will have some pictures of the work they are doing in class. Once we go private at the end of the month I will post the school website again and also her classroom blog.

As you all know kids can say the funniest things. Last night after back to school night we had to take a friends son home on base and then have a very late dinner. The kids both had chicken tenders as usual. Right before Kayleigh took her first bite she looked at me and asked if her chicken tender was made from a real chicken and I said yes. She seemed to be fine about the answer and took a bite. After her next bite she asked if the chicken was still alive. Kris and I did great and did not laugh out loud, but it was very hard. I told her the chicken was dead. She seemd fine and took another bite. Her next question was "how did the chicken die?" Kris said it was processed. She took another bite then asked again, "but how did it die?" I said it was killed and we are not discussing it anymore at the table. I was very glad I was able to answer before Kris because he planned to tell her how it died. Thankfully that was the end of questions about the chicken tender.