Mondays mornings are usually wonderful in the Miles household. Back to work, school and getting up early. John is up at 5:30 and I usually get the kids up around 6:00, we leave for school around 7:00. Well this morning was a little different here. See today the CRCT test started which means standardized testing for the girls all week!! To top it off, the school makes sure the kids know that if you don't pass it in 3rd grade you don't go to 4th grade. Talk about undue stress on the kids. So need less to say Becca didn't want to go to school today. "What if I fail?" she kept asking. I have no fear of her failing, I mean she just made all A's on her report card a few weeks ago. Still though she is so concerned about this test. All weekend she would ask me to quiz her on stuff and wanted to go get the CRCT test practice book. They have been practicing for a month now at school every day I was not about to have her cram all weekend, she needs to have fun, you know be a kid! OK so maybe I'm a little upset about this test. I understand they need to make sure kids are learning but do they need to make suck a big deal about this test? Do they need to build it up so much? They even had a pep rally Friday at school for it. Owell! Just pray that the girls (and I) will get through this week and back to normal next week.