At exactly 8:06 a.m. this morning, Justin jumped up from watching a show and ran into the kitchen gasping, "I missed the bus!"
"It's Saturday, Bud. You're O.K."
He giggled with relief and said, "Oh good, well it's great I have one free day a week!"
Poor kid, this was his first week of school and with that I mean EVERY SINGLE DAY school. We're all a little shell shocked. Last year I could handle two or three days a week no problem. But every single morning...oh my!
All summer he has been so excited for school to start. On the first day, he wanted to ride the bus. So I told him we would follow and meet him at the school. Well, the parking lot was full and a million cars were trying to find spots. By the time we finally made it into the school he was not there. We found him in his new classroom coloring away at his desk. He told me, "Mom, I got a little bit lost but the principal and another person walked me to my class." Bless them! I was so proud of him that he didn't let that little bump in his first day knock him off kilter. His first grade teacher is Mrs. Anderson and he already has a few friends from the last school year in his class. We left him with all smiles.
I really haven't worried about him at all...until he came home from school the first day with NO smile. Oh dear! He wouldn't tell me anything about his day. I had to pry out any details at all. Later that first night, he said, "You know, Mom, first grade isn't very much fun." I asked him to tell me about it. He said, "Well, there are no toys and they don't have very many books. But I do get two days of P.E.!" (Funny that he gets the "silver lining" streak from me. I'm so proud!)
As the week went on, he was returning home with more and more smiles. On Thursday morning he missed the bus. He is supposed to meet it at 7:42 a.m. and it came about 5 minutes early as we were getting on our shoes in the garage. I watched to gage his reaction. He shrugged and said with a nervous giggle, "That's o.k., Mom, this happens sometimes." No tears, no worries. We just hopped in the car and in no time (we live just two blocks away) he was running into the school. School starts at 8:00 a.m. By Friday, he was positively giddy when he got off of the bus at 2:30 p.m. with his friend Shawn. What a relief for me to see he is getting it. Each step in growing up brings change and that change doesn't have to be a bad thing. It's just different.
Ty and I have noticed a big difference at home during the days. It is so quiet. I have to turn on the music at full blast. We miss Justin when he's at school all day and I can tell Tyler is so glad to have him come home so they can play.
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I am not doing great with this whole school thing. It isn't as much that I miss my kids, even though I do, but it is such a transition for our family...from fun...to real people land. I think I don't like it for real! I need some of your optimism!
What a brave, good-natured, optimistic boy you have there. The school thing has got to be so surreal. Glad he's doing so well, despite the occasional setback.
Way to go Justin! He's growing up so fast! I'm glad that by the end of the week he had things down and life was good! It always takes a few days to get into the swing of things!
Holy cow, he rides the bus and it's only two blocks to school?
I am so glad you up and running again with your blog, I was missing you like crazy! Looks like you had a great last part of summer. The circus looks so fun. randy and I took the kids to the cheap one at the fairgrounds a couple years ago, talk about scary!
Glad Justin found his way, what a easy going and smart boy!
They bus all the kids on our side of the busy road that flanks the school. We consider ourselves lucky since Justin is almost as excited about the bus as he is about going to school. And I like that not much can go wrong on the bus in only two blocks of ride time!
I think your boys are the cutest! I'm glad Justin is enjoying 1st grade. I totally understand his gratitude for P.E. I was always excited for recess . . .
My kids felt the same way. They really noticed the change from Kinder to 1st grade. Suddenly, school wasn't as much fun anymore and they actually had to work. There really isn't much of a transition for them. Poor kids. I remember feeling the same way about it too. I missed the toys and the painting.
That is so cute that he thought he missed the bus. It is so odd to have them gone all day long isn't it?!
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I love that bus picture! It is so good I wish I took it! =)
Wyatt is having a hard time with first grade too. It makes me so tired to think about it, I can't even blog about it! I hope he gets into the swing of things soon.
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