The summer ends

[MissTaken]

and so work begins again.

Anxious to get back into the routine of playing with three and four year olds and getting up early to see my lil one's onto the bus.

My second grader is fit to be tied. He so wants to return to school.

My preschooler is anxious to go back to school. Her peditrician suggested I start her in public school now because she is "so bright and ready." NOT! I think waiting another year will be part of an equation for success.


The little decisions we make that seem paramount now, but ultimately won't cause harm in the long run can so drive us crazy!

Who else is returning to work after a long summer vacation?

Have fun and enjoy!

 

[zach79]

Yeah, back to school once again, although this will be my last fall semester for awhile.

After that it's into the job market.

I'm half tempted to become a teacher just for the fact that most of them get summers off.

 

[bknight2602]

We've been in school for a week now. I remember the times going to the school visiting teachers, seeing new environments, normally the same group of kids. My son could have started, but was not ready so I held him back for a year.
The only circumstance that occurred was he thought all the kids in the grade above him were older! Don't worry about it let them grow up at their own rate.

 

[MissTaken]

I remember the first day of school and the clearest memory was always the scent of the freshly scrubbed floors.



Silly, but that a brand new box of crayolas really rocks!

 

[sexy-girl]

my summer is just starting though ... my holiday starts in 3 days

 

[Monazwx]

Sexy-girl, I am so jealous!!!

Yep, I'm back to grindstone as well.
School started on Wednesday and I'm looking for a job to get these credit card bills down, if not wiped out completely. Depressed already.

How's it goin' Miss T.

 

[IrishWolfhound]

The change of seasons has meaning for those of us not returning to school.

Autumn was when I always went on vacation to either Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard with my ex. The first crisp cool morning will trigger a response in me like a migrating bird to fly eastwards and settle on the shore.

But this year it will be bittersweet. I don't know if I will ever return to those places, alone or with another. But my soul will want to fly on those cool mornings.

 

[SweetCherry]

My daughter starts first grade tomorrow. She's so excited, but also scared. She doesn't know about the whole "every day" school. Last year, it was only every other day so she still had time with me. I think she'll do just fine tho. Now her brother just has to learn how to deal with his days without his sister around to play with all the time.

 

[ma_guy]

The end of this summer is a bit different for me. My daughter started college 2 weeks ago half-way across the country..

For the first time ever I have the entire house to myself.. It's kinda spooky..

No expecting someone else to come home.. No one else getting up in the middle of the night... No one else to cook for or clean up after. Spending waaaaayyy to much time on Lit! lol

 

[Aprilsbaby]

my summer is just starting though ... my holiday starts in 3 days

bon voyage sg
you will be missed by your friends

 

[lilminx]

Work starts up again tomorrow for me, and school starts Wednesday. Students come back on Thursday.

I really don't want my summer to end. I feel like I've missed so much of it. Once I'm actually at work, I'll be fine though.

 

[Tantanah]

Sexy-girl, I am so jealous!!!

Yep, I'm back to grindstone as well.
School started on Wednesday and I'm looking for a job to get these credit card bills down, if not wiped out completely. Depressed already.

How's it goin' Miss T.

Hey Mona! Are you back in town now??

 

[Angelofsex]

Where did those days go....crayolas, coloring book, teaching her to print her name and learn her numbers and letters.....having her know her colors.........yesterday years went so fast.....now she is going on 21......no more lunch box.......no more bookbags....the best part of my job is done....helping her grow up.

 

[batter]

Dear MissTaken

i know you are anxious to get back too!
bet you are glad summer is over so you can hit the books again

hard to believe another summer has come and gone so soon.
your children are getting big now eh?

enjoy school !

Hugs

 

[Raina]

I feel strange this year because I'm not going back to school. It's weird to just continue the same routine. I love the fall, but I feel restless. Maybe I need to take a trip to visit my grandparents.

 

[1sexylady]

Well the summer is over here in New Jersey...My son starts school Thursday and I am sad... I will miss him alot....We do alot of things together and not having him around will be sad to me....Now with school starting...today he ran a 101 fever.... so tomorrow I will be taking him to the doctors...

I remember the smell of new clothes, the waxed floors of the school and gosh getting new books... I was always excited when I went to school...I am sure my mom was too...there was seven of us...

Now it is time to wait for the leaves to turn and think about Christmas..

 

[Rubyfruit]

Now it is time to wait for the leaves to turn and think about Christmas..

I saw Halloween decorations at the mall this past weekend. *eek*

My son started first grade this last week. So far so good, but he's still in the honeymoon faze.

 

[cymbidia]

My daughter began 9th grade last Monday. That's high school here. My son started kindergarten on the same day, an all-day kindergarten.

Suddenly there are no more kids at home during the day.

Suddenly we're up at the crack of dawn, struggling into clothing, making lunches, making toast and jam or a scrambled egg or cereal and milk or cheese and crackers - something! you have to eat something and hurry cuz we have to go! -- then out the door for the day.

This time, this September, i'm divorced and in my own house. There are lots and lots of empty spaces in my life now that used to be filled with other people and thier concerns.

I like it, the stillness.
I like the time to think and breathe and read.
I like the luzury of sipping coffee and reading the paper and gazing around my own house that's filled with my own stuff and arranged in the way that i like it, all without regard to anyone else's needs and wants and desires.

I'll be starting work myself sometime soon and then the long open empty spaces that i revel in so selfishly will be gone, too, but for now i am delighting in this unexpected "me" time.

Yes, school began here last week, too.

 

[Never]

Tomorrow is the first day of classes. Wait, that's today.

 

[Rubyfruit]

I'll be starting work myself sometime soon and then the long open empty spaces that i revel in so selfishly will be gone, too, but for now i am delighting in this unexpected "me" time.

Me too. I'm alone in my house for the first time in six years. It's odd. I keep thinking I hear my son upstairs playing when he's at school. It's quiet, but I like it.

Never, I thought you started next week, no?