Just in case you did not hear that giant sigh of RELIEF last week…school has finally started. I love summer; lazy days, long evenings, and for some reason the pressures of the world don’t seem so heavy. But I love a routine too. My kids NEED a routine. In my opinion kids thrive off a routine.
School was set to start on Wednesday. At 5:30 am, Cal woke up vomiting and feverish. My first thought was Oh Cr@p! Then I thought well maybe this is first day jitters. But as his temperature kept going up, I knew he was really sick. He missed the first day and then the second.
So he started on the third day. By this point he was really nervous. I mean he almost made himself sick all over again because he was so nervous. But he went and by all accounts HIS first day went great. He came home blabbering away about his day and how awesome school is going to be this year; all the cool new things he can do because he is 2nd grader, who his art teacher will be, the new log-in for computers, how cool it is that he sits at a desk, the routine in the classroom, the color of his new math book. Not a single detail was left out.
And as customary in our family, the first day of school deserves a special treat. Since the Ben and Jerry’s ice cream closed, we now have to make do with Starbucks and apple fritters…nothing like deep fried dough, sugar and apples to celebrate the start of school and the end of summer.
