Mother's Notes: Another School Year
Yesterday, my sons returned to school after a long, lazy summer off. My oldest is beginning his first day of Middle School (Junior High as some may call it). My youngest begins his last year of Elementary School. For those who don’t know, my sons are just a year apart, so this is their first separation in five years. But this is the second time in their lives that they have been separated, the first being when my oldest went to First Grade, while the other stayed behind at a private Kindergarten. Needless to say the current separation has caused some anxiety in my home for the past few weeks, and it was strange to drop off each one at a different school and at different times yesterday morning. Also, my oldest must make the scary transition to being a “big kid”: changing classes, no recess, and remembering his locker combination. He even had a small panic attack when we pulled up in the car line to drop him off, “Wait a minute, what do I do with my Tru...