back-to-school season has arrived, which means name labels on underwear, three spare outfits, approximately six thousand school holidays and trying to find kids’ activities that don’t require the entire family to live in the car.

Emily shares how Olivia’s first week of kindergarten went—including the exhaustion, the new routines and the classroom guinea pig currently getting top billing—and Kendall prepares to send Charlie to school while negotiating a gymnastics tryout for a two-year-old whose ability to listen is…very mood-dependent.

Plus, the girls debate butter storage, remember their children eating straight from restaurant butter packets and hear a listener submission about the tiny moment when your child suddenly asks, “how was your day?”

• Kindergarten can be more exhausting than preschool even when the day is technically shorter.
• Putting multiple children in activities is its own logistical sport. The dream is two classes at the same location, preferably back-to-back, with no one spending an hour watching their sibling have fun.
• The smallest signs that our kids are growing can hit harder than the official milestones.
• Every parent has a category of problem they have decided to leave for Future Them.
• Back-to-school preparation is mostly labeling objects you did not realize required individual identification.

• Golden Gate Gymnastics
• Name Bubbles

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