School Starts tomorrow

School in our city starts tomorrow (8/18). I’m a little sad, but mostly excited about it.

My oldest is 12 and in 7th grade. He is in his second year of middle school and doing very well. He is going to play football for the school this year and his practices start tomorrow. He is very excited and can’t wait. I’m excited to watch him play but will miss the practices. He did two years of midget football and I watch all but one practice during those two years. At the middle school level they ask that the parents not come to practices because they feel the students do better when they are not being watched. I can understand, but it’s still hard. O’well!

My youngest is almost 10 and in the 4th grade. This is is second to the last year for elementary school and his second year without his brother at the same school. He was not happy with the fact that he won’t be in the same school as his brother until his first year of high school and then it will only be for one year. I guess that’s what happens when they are 3 grades apart. O’well, I know he will do just fine. This is his first year having a male teacher, so that will be an interesting thing as well. He is very excited about having this man as his teacher. My oldest had him as a reading teacher and did very well. But, my boy’s have different ways of learning and I’m praying that won’t cause a problem.

So, tomorrow we will be getting up at 6:30 am so we can have breakfast and get ready for school. My oldest has to be to school by 7:45 and my youngest has to be to school by 8:40. Thank goodness we don’t live to far from the schools.

I want to say good luck to both of my boy’s and I wish them well on their first day of school!