School starts for a lot of kids this week. From kindergarten through High School, Thursday and Friday are like orientation days before rolling on into a regular schedule next week. The start of school tends to pull the rest of us into its regular schedule as well.
Our Emily (age 16), will be a Junior this year at Hastings High School. Our Zack (age 21), is starting his fourth year at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Our Katie (age 23), is mailing out applications to law schools, hoping to start next fall.
Emily is a Tigerette, (HHS Dance Team), and will be in Chamber Choir. She also likes being in Drama Club. She decided not to be in band this year. So for the first time since 2002, Cindy and I are not High School band parents. Zack is once again playing snare in the drumline of the N.C. State Marching band. He’s working toward his degree in Marine Sciences.
School shopping for us now is more about clothes than pencils and notebooks. I used to love getting the lists for my kids’ grade and heading to Walmart to get organized. Zack isn’t even buying books until he goes to his classes and learns what he’ll really need. Emily likes her back pack from last year, so there’s no need to hunt down the perfect new back pack this year either. I am not invited to go school shopping for the clothes Emily wants. She likes to casually hunt for her school clothes all summer. We’ve already hit the summer sales to get the homecoming and prom dresses for this coming year.
The start of the new school year is a time of transition for everybody involved. Teachers and students will be getting used to new groupings and classrooms. Everybody will be adjusting to the multiplication of bells and alarms that will guide our lives for the next nine months.
God bless us during this time of transition: parents, grandparents, kids, teachers, administrators, school support staff. Changing always needs a little extra blessing to get us through.
I think I’m gonna go to Walmart and get a new mechanical pencil, and some notebooks, just for old times sake!
Grace & Peace,
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