First Day of School 2013

     Once again, and too early I might add, the younglings have returned to school. This year is another pretty big year as The Boy has been joined at the local elementary school by Pickle. Yes, she has moved on up to first grade! She is pumped about it, too. It was hard to hold her back from running out the door this morning after she got dressed. The Boy was not so excited.
     After a fine breakfast of waffles we tied our shoes and headed out. We were joined on our walk by 2 of Pickle's past and present classmates. We thought it would be nice for the three of them to head into the unknown of a new school with the known of some old friends. It helped a great deal. About 4 houses from school Pickle reached down and took the little boy's hand and held it all the way onto the playground. In fact, she was still holding it as the bell rang and they walked into the building.
    I walked down to meet the kids after school and found two very pleased little ones. One was just glad to be out of school for the day and the other just couldn't wait to go back. After a snack of fresh lemon squares a little paperwork was completed and a paragraph about summer vacation written and then the bags were packed for another day.