First day of school
You know the feeling; that turning in your stomach when you walked into the local K-mart or Zellers with your mom and you saw the giant sign that said “Back to school supplies”. You were with your mom so you couldn’t swear (unless you lived on the farm and you were only allowed to say one word that your “non-farm” friends couldn’t say) but you said to yourself “It’s only July, my summer just began”.
From that point on you had an unofficial countdown in your head of when the dreaded day of school would begin; 30 days, 15 days, 2 more sleeps, one more hour etc … You were the deer and the beginning of school was the headlights. Your tried everything to get out of the way, even telling your Mom ”seriously, I think you’d be a great homeschool teacher!” or you’d think to yourself “what would ferris buhler do?”. Nothing worked – the first day always came.
I’m feeling for all the kids at school today. Some parents are happy that their little one is out of the house again, some parents balled like a newborn on the steps of the elementary school. Whatever the parents have gone through – the child has to wait another school year for summer vacation.
The first day of school – oh what memories.
*Caleb starts on Monday and Abby starts on Tuesday. We’re partying till then.
