My kids started school today.  Although we will miss the lazy days of summer, they were ready for school to begin and so was I.  Maybe it is because I didn’t have much time out of graduate school before I got married and had kids, but I tend to measure time by the school year rather than the calendar year.  So the end of August/beginning of September is really like the start of a new year–So exciting!  So full of promise!   I can’t wait to sit down with my iCal and plan out a great year for myself.   Maybe I’ll even wander into Staples or Target and pick up a new notebook and pen.

My husband and I both take the kids to school on the first day and walk the youngest into the classroom.  And as always I take photos.  I have always done this; it is tradition.  My daughter happily smiled outside of school and inside the class room as well.  She’s an old pro in 2nd grade now, so we didn’t hang out too long, just long enough to get her settled and take a few shots.

Check out her cool new lunchbox from Lunchboxes.com

On the other hand, this is a photo of my son:

For the first time ever, he refused to let me take his photo on the first day of school.   Today is his first day of high school and I was trying to be sensitive by asking to take the photo in the parking lot with no one remotely nearby.   He willingly gave me a hug and kiss, but he was adamant about not being photographed.   My husband tried to hold his lunchbox hostage until he took the photo, but I told him to give up the lunchbox and let the boy go.  It was a bittersweet start of the new school year.  Let the boy go….I think that we will be doing so much more of that now.

As he walked away, I turned around so he wouldn’t see me cry.

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