1. Nobody gets sick.
2. Nobody cries.
3. Everybody eats.
4. Everybody gets home safely.
I'm not sure if that happened for all 1600 kids at my high school, but at least in our family, we accomplished those goals. I wondered if I would cry the first day (Mr. Blue is, of course, my baby) but although I felt my eyeballs get a bit misty, the feeling passed quickly because he was already settling down to put together a puzzle. And he and his sister were in fact fine and enjoyed the first week. They both have wonderful teachers. We are blessed.
And I hope the parents of my students will be able to say that I did a good job teaching their children. Because even though they look like they're grown up, with their makeup and muscles, their parents still think of them as their babies, especially on the first day of school.
That sounds all in all like a good first week!! Hope you have so many more this year!!
ReplyDeleteSo true! No matter how old our kids become, they are always babies in our eyes on first day of school. *smile*
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