This morning children all over Rexburg woke up, grabbed their book bags and best outfits for their first day of school.

For some students, the first day can be stressful and cause anxiety. One local family tries to aid their children and their neighbors by hosting an annual Bus Stop Breakfast.

Marla Cluff, a mother of seven, says that when she lived in Utah she heard of a similar event and decided to make it a tradition for her family.

Every year at the bus stop they invite everyone in the neighborhood together for a breakfast potluck where they talk and have some fun before the day starts.

Cluff says that her children move often due to her husbands job and she wanted to help her kids feel a little more excited about their first day of school and give them more confidence.

This tasty tradition has been going for five years straight in the same place, on Widdison Lane. But two years ago the Tai family, when they moved in, built a bus stop shelter for the children and now they host it there.

“We had the breakfast in the empty lot before the Tai’s built their home there,” Cluff said. “It’s really just setting up a table and putting food on it. We start about 30 minutes before the bus comes.”

Cluff's children make small paper cards that they hand out to everyone in the neighborhood, children and adults, to invite them to their annual breakfast.

Cluff reports that this morning they had nine children and about five adults attend, but when people drove by they gave them something to brighten their day too.

At the Bus Stop Breakfast they happened to see the new vice principal of Madison middle school drive by and they gave her a cinnamon roll for her first day, Cluff said.

“That cinnamon roll was so much better than the granola bar I had for breakfast,” Jean Erickson, the vice principal of Madison middle school, said.

Erickson has been a teacher for fifteen years but today was her first day as vice principle of Madison middle school. And today when she saw Cassie Cluff at school she couldn’t help but hug her and say thank you for the cinnamon rolls, Erickson said.

“I told her that I should’ve gone early to eat breakfast with them and Cassie said, ‘yes, you should have,’” Erickson said.

This year the Cluff family had four children attending the breakfast, one in fourth grade, one in fifth grade, one in ninth grade and one in eleventh. The families other children are no longer in grade-school.

“My oldest is at BYU-Provo, my second is working in Island Park and my third is preparing for a mission,” Cluff said.

One of the families that attended the breakfast today were the Tietjen family who have six children, Cluff said.

“Their oldest will be in college and then the other five go to five different schools here in Rexburg,” Cluff said. “Burton, Madison middle school, Madison jr high, Madison high school and Central high school.”

Cluff says she makes cinnamon rolls every year and her kids really enjoy it.

“It’s a very fun tradition,” Erickson said.