First Day of School 2017

This September was our first time sending one of our kids off to their first day of post-secondary school. Shae chose to attend Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario to study art and animation. I flew out with her just before school started to help her get set up in her dorm. We flew into Toronto and rented a car - Sheridan is only about a twenty minute drive from the airport.

We hit up Ikea and Value Village and a few other stores to get all her pots and pans, linens, cleaning supplies, and groceries that she needed. She was assigned a room on the second floor and they wouldn't let us use the elevators on move-in day so we got a lot of exercise that day carrying all her stuff up from the parking lot. Luckily the suites are furnished so nothing too heavy to carry.  And too bad for everyone on the third, fourth and fifth floors, ha!

Once she was moved in, we walked around Oakville for a bit and made it all the way to the lake shore (Lake Ontario).

 Here she is trying out bagged milk for the first time (something I was used to, having grown up in Ontario but was new to her because we don't have it in Alberta):

Once she was settled, I said my tearful good-bye and flew home to help the other kids get ready for their first day of school. Connor is now in grade 8, Maira is in grade 5 and Hudson is in grade 3.

I asked Shae to send me a selfie of her leaving her dorm room on her first day of school:

Finally, here is a photo of all of us that we took a few days before Shae moved to Oakville.