{"id":1360,"date":"2012-08-21T21:29:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T02:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2012-08-21T21:31:20","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T02:31:20","slug":"first-day-of-school-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2012\/08\/first-day-of-school-2012.html","title":{"rendered":"First Day of School 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoy a nice picture of the boys just before they headed out for the school bus yesterday. \u00a0The boys both have great teachers this year and both have been reporting good days so far.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob&#8217;s happy to have many of his friends from last year&#8217;s class in his 4th grade class again this year.<\/p>\n<p>Timmy reports that his favorite thing about 2nd grade is being allowed to sit at the back of the bus.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1361\" style=\"width: 451px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC_0039.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1361\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1361\" title=\"DSC_0039\" src=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC_0039-678x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The best I could do in 21 takes....\" width=\"441\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC_0039-678x1024.jpg 678w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC_0039-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The best I could do in 21 takes&#8230;.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I used to have a nifty collage capability in iPhoto, but with an upgrade earlier this year I can&#8217;t do the nice gridded pictures the way it used to be. But here&#8217;s an alternative showing some of our takes, ha ha!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/FirstDayOfSchoolCollage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1362\" title=\"FirstDayOfSchoolCollage\" src=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/FirstDayOfSchoolCollage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"631\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/FirstDayOfSchoolCollage.jpg 901w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/FirstDayOfSchoolCollage-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoy a nice picture of the boys just before they headed out for the school bus yesterday. \u00a0The boys both have great teachers this year and both have been reporting good days so far. Jacob&#8217;s happy to have many of his friends from last year&#8217;s class in his 4th grade class again this year. Timmy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[175,621,234],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-lW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/01\/a-musing-about-maryann.html","url_meta":{"origin":1360,"position":0},"title":"A Musing About Maryann","date":"04 January 08","format":false,"excerpt":"I get an e-mail that looks like this every night.Is it Spam? 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