The Start of School

Well school has started everywhere. What are you feeling besides relief? Does it make you think back to your Septembers in your youth? Do you wonder how you'll fill your days now that you don't have the kids there every moment? Now be honest, aren't you a little glad to have some time to yourself, maybe even rediscover naps? Lunches out with friends, maybe even join a book club? Or are you a helper type at school? We're all so different but I do know that everything does change once it's September. Even the leaves know its a changing time. If you're lucky to live where you get color you know what I mean.

I always think its good when something outside of us MAKES us change like the fact it's no longer summer but fall with school, football, beautiful trees and the slight chill in the air for some of us. Actually I don't know what happens in a place like Florida. Do you realize its September? I'd like to hear from a Floridian on this.

Also what's the difference for a parent when they are sending them off to college versus elementary school? I think it does make you think and you are very conscious of time passing and also you worry just as much as when they were little.