Back to School

Back To School

 

The house is quiet today,

the kids have all gone back to school.

And when at last the first day came...

The oldest had no need of me

So confident and sure was he 

Such comfort in familiarity. 

The middle hung between two places

Not willing to stay behind

And yet afraid at the prospect of all day.

The Last reached up and took my hand

All the way to the door we must go

Childhood joy greets me at the end of her day. 

      

It seems to them that time goes slow

How cruel that for me time is fast

Only yesterday they were babes all three.

When they leave they take a piece of me

and all is rather lonely and empty

The house is quiet today...

 

 

Gage and Claire's school experience was the same as last year and so I felt like it was much more comfortable.  Luke on the other hand started first grade and has to stay the whole day which is so long for him and truth be told for me too!  Claire lost her best playmate.  I felt anxious all day, for him, about bathrooms and lunch. 

When I picked him up he said, "Today was a really hard day."  He started to cry and he was trying so hard to be a little man and when I asked him why it was hard he said it was so long and that when he asked his teacher how much longer he had until he could go home she said, "Two hours!"  You know that is an eternity to a kid and so Luke and me cried together...right there in front of the school. 

School has been in for a month and Luke is getting better each day but each Thursday he says he can't take one more day of school.  Thank heaven for short Fridays.