The boys started school on Monday, August 3.
The night before, on that Sunday, Matt had personal interviews with each child and then administered Father's Blessings with each child. It was pretty special, for this was the first time that Matt had been around for the "First Day of School".
Anyway, they were all very excited to start school, but maybe not as excited as I was! They are all in full school, going from roughly 8am to 3pm. (Oh, and did I mention that they are all in DIFFERENT schools?! Yeah, that's a headache, but it's been pretty easy to navigate… Just the car-rider line is for.e.ver.)
The day of the first day of school Matt had been able to stay home in the morning and help all get everyone ready, and then walk each kid into school. It was pretty easy to drop everyone off, just a bit of a walk for Eli and Isaac since the parking was awful and we had to park in a neighboring neighborhood.
Isaac is in 2nd grade. Was really easy to drop him off since he is now a pro. He was excited about school, but knew that it was going to be work. However, on his first day home he exclaimed, "Wow! Second grade is really easy. We didn't do any work today!" But he changed his tune a week later when real homework came home and it took him almost an hour to focus and get it done. (Homework time is now closer to 15-20 min, but it took a while for him to get in the groove.)
Eli is in Kindergarten. Holy shmoly, he was pumped to be a Kindergartener! Had been talking about entering Kindergarten since the beginning of preschool of the previous year. When we walked in that morning he couldn't keep the smile off his face, no matter how hard he tried! The first week back he was excited, but after the weekend break he was pretty much broken hearted to realize that he had to go back. Poor guy.
On the second day walking him in to school (for again I parked, since the car rider line was a disastrous mess), he was half-way down the sidewalk and turned to me, "Mom, I don't need help walking in." I was like, "Okay…???" Then two seconds later, after two steps, he half turns and mumbles: "Mom, I need you to come with me."
On the third day of school he grasped my hand, saying, "I need you to walk all the way with me."
On the fourth day of school he was just content to walk in with me beside him.
Eli and Isaac are now mostly bus-riders to school. Eli thinks he's really grown-up now! It's hard to let these kids do such big things…. The older they get, the more and more I realize how little they are. Make sense?
Titus is in Pre-K. It is a full-day program at a montessori school. Georgia has their preschools (and other education) funded by the Georgia Lottery. Since it's state run, the state requires the preschool to be all day and 5 days a week. At first I hated the idea of him, or the other kids, gone all day for 5 days, but I quickly got over it! Hahaha! Anyway, Titus LOVES being in a school and having his own class with his own backpack and his own friends. I think he felt like he was missing out last year when his brothers were in school. But he's now set, and a real "big kid."
I drive him to school. It's nice that it's just two minutes down the road.
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