Today is the first day of the school year 2011-2012. We still have four of the six children in school. This year we have at least one child in every school: Joey in elementary, Jess in middle, and Sis and Chas in High School. For three of them it is a "momentous" year: last year in elementary for Joey, last year in middle for Jess and first year of high school for Sis. Chas believes this is a special year for her, too; since she's a Junior she thinks she's an upperclassman. But I remember that for Seniors, no one is an upperclassman but them. I remember being in school and the excitement of the first day back every year. There is something about new school supplies that still gives me a warm fuzzy feeling to this day. Everything is crisp and shiny and has that "fresh from the store" smell. There are no pen marks on the binders, no crumpled wide-ruled notebook paper. All the pencils are the same length, the end erasers still pristin...
My real life mess, Redeemed.