Hi Ho! Hi Ho! It's Off To School They Go!

The energy level was high around our house this morning!



The elementary school kids.

They were so excited they woke up at 6:00 a.m. and all four of them were ready to walk out the door by 7:00...they don't even have to leave the house until close to 8:00. (Nate doesn't look it in the picture but he was as excited as anyone.) Give them a week and I'll be calling them out of bed at 7:00. They all wanted cold lunch and made their lunches, but Jeran and Megan forgot theirs and even though we drove they were so excited to get there they opted for school lunch on the first day rather than go home to get their cold lunches. Joie wanted me to walk her to her class line, but Megan and Jeran said they just wanted a wave. I hugged Joie good-bye and walked past Jeran and Megan's line on the way to the car thinking, "Just wave...just wave..." Then one of Jeran's friends said hi to me so I walked over to say hi and talked just long enough that auto pilot took over and as I said good-bye I did the UNTHINKABLE...I hugged my 6th grade son in front of his friend. My hug was met by a stiff-as-a-board non-response from Jeran and in an instant I saw the look on his face and realized what I had done. Then he kind of lauhed a little and his friends kind of laughed too. Rather than embarassing him further by saying sorry, I just smiled and waved and waved to Megan and left. Here we go into another school year!