Yes it is July and yes Jared (4th grade) and Gabe (1st grade) started school this week. In July. The middle of the summer. Apparently it is the law or something that kids have to be in school. And because we live in a year round school area we had to start too. (Makes me almost consider home school for a tiny little milisecond, then I realize I'm not that insane.) I'm so not happy about it. Going to school in the middle of the summer goes against all laws of nature. It's too hot. The school is hot. It is too light out at night to be trying to get kids to go to bed at 8:30. They should be staying up late and sleeping in and waking up to grape kool-aid for breakfast and "The Price is Right" on TV like I did when I was in grade school. I'm not ready for "where is my backpack" and making lunches and permission slips and back to school nights and homework and spelling lists and the structure. (And I'm not tired of them being home yet. We were having fun.) At least Jared and Gabe are on C track and they go for three weeks then they are off for three weeks. So we will get three more weeks of summer.
And another thing I'm not ready for is the evidence that my kids are growing up. I always get nostalgic when school starts. It makes me feel like their childhoods are slipping through my fingers. I have a secret...I cried the day that I dropped Miquelle off for her first day of kindergarten, and I have cried the first day of school ever since. Not the ugly cry but tears because I know that time is passing too quickly. I feel like I have spent much of my time as a mom feeling like I couldn't wait for my kids to get older, to sleep through the night, to walk, to start school. And days go by and I don't always notice the little things happening but then something big like starting a new school year comes and I'm forced to see how big and independent my kids are getting. I love that they are getting bigger and experiencing more things. Let's face it there is a lot of world out there and many opportunities for them to have that I alone can't give them. But the beginning of school is just pure evidence that the years are passing much too quickly.
3 comments:
How are they liking it so far? Do you like their teachers? I bet you're missing Gabe all day- you're right, it's just too fast :(
Do you know what's funny? I thought I saw you across the pool today. I wildly waved and even said something, but alas it was not you at all and I cleaned my sunglasses :) We are at the Shinsel's pool here in South Jordan.
I totally agree! School in July is morally wrong!
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