The Next Lot...

Monday begins another school year at my school, as well as another school year for my sons.

At my school, the preliminary class lists went out on Monday. My student list looks pretty good, but it has been edited at least twice this week, and I anticipate it will be changed yet again before the week is out. That's fine with me, I expected this. I am looking forward to the change-it was time for last years class to move up. They were getting tired of being in our room. You know that old saying: Familiarity breeds contempment. It's time for a change for all of us.

I am looking forward to seeing how my own children do this year. My youngest son starts kindergarten. He's been wanting to go to kindergarten since he turned 5 in April. Now, after all his patience, he finally gets to start. As I know for a fact that when he climbs onto that bus on Monday, I will have to do EVERYTHING to hold back my tears.

I am very interested in how Donovan will do this year. He starts third grade this year, which my assumption is the year that school work really starts to count. Over the summer, I have seem some improvement with his behavior-except with his brother. Seems now that Ethan feels confident enough to defend himself, the sibling rivalry is worse. Hopefully, the remedy for that is school-being away from each other for 6 hours. Donovan has school and football this year. The football coached are very strict-meaning if you don't do your homework before practice, you get punished at practice. The more I think about it, maybe this strictness is something Donovan needs, to shape him a bit more. We shall see-I am willing to try it out.

Have a great (school) year.