Yes, you read that right. Doesn’t it make your stomach churn?
We are in a year-round school district, and today is the first day of school. It was so hard watching my two youngest still left in elementary school climb aboard that bus and get swallowed up for another year. Summer isn’t over, why are we back in school?
This year I have a 4th grader and a 5th grader. The 5th grade thing is what is the hardest. That’s my baby. My youngest child. I’m not prepared for that tiny little thing to be in 5th grade, and with the knowledge that next year she enters middle school. Which will leave only his youngest at the elementary school by herself. I wonder how that will go.
I hope this school year goes well, and I guess we will just have to make the best of the weekends. Of course, the end of September they will wind up getting out of school for three weeks while the rest of the world is still studying hard. I used to hate cycle breaks, now its the only thing that gets me through the first days of school in the dead of summer.
