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Ahoy, the school year
And....they're back.
And so am I.
I know, while much of the country has been back at school for weeks, we hold-outs on the eastern seaboard tend to take our sweet time in returning (and, don't forget, as a pricetag for the piper we get out late in June on the other end). So, after a great long weekend with friends, we all toddled off yesterday in our various directions.
Ah, the fresh page of a new school year. All those new school supplies! All those good intentions! All those nervous transitions and tired afternoons (summer makes us wimps) and loaded emotions. It's a bit of a ride, this first week. I forget that every year.
And then I read this from Julie of Mental Tesserae (ah! here's the advantage of starting school later--you get everyone's else's wisdom up front) and I thought, yep. Exactly:
"My kids are all starting school and riding their various emotional hurricanes. At least once a day, one of them washes up next to me, all soggy and windblown and bruised from the latest blast of national disaster proportions. Each of them needs a healthy, sympathetic, focused mother with unlimited mental and emotional resources. Instead they are stuck with me, the Michael "Brownie" Brown of personal hurricane relief...Sadly for my children, I am not the font of wisdom. I am not the font of anything. Except maybe Kleenex and a deep sense of genuine, if somewhat distracted, compassion." (So well put. I second it. Also read her posts describing her experiment in following Ramadan this month.)
Eventually we'll all get it together, pretty much. Even me. Notice the lack of photos here? I forgot to take back-to-school photos. First time in 13 years, no early morning, bleary-eyed photos with new backpacks and wet hair with comb tracks. None. But, hey, we're out of school tomorrow for Rosh Hashanah so maybe I can dub Friday our Back to School, take two.
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and also: Debussy ~ Claire de Lune
Thursday, September 9, 2010 | 6 Comments 
Reader Comments (6)
I had to send you a quick comment. I came across your blog through some far - fetched channel, I actually don't even know where (I have several Logan AND Boston connections - so one of those, I'm sure) I've been a fairly regular lurker on your blog for a good bit and thought perhaps I'd come clean and introduce myself. So nice to meet you. Your thoughts/posts so often mirror my own, seems like we should be, or have been, friends in some alternate reality.
I've been giving my kids the goal of making one new friend each day of this first week of school. I guess I figured I'd better follow suit!
Hi Rebecca! so nice to meet you. I love that you introduced yourself. We'll have to figure out all of those "do you know...." connections. I see that you have a private blog...is it okay if I join so I can lurk in return? :)
Ah, alas, I just can't say it as well. Pretty much my version of her thoughts are, "I'm sucking it up at motherhood." But, I believe the sentiments are the same...
Hi Annie
You sound to have had a great summer. I loved seeing your pictures from California and swimming in the mountain lake too. I wish you all well for this year in your studies/jobs. Lauren's recent pictures are stunning. We all went back to school this week too. Seems to be going ok. Great to catch up with you again
Lindsay
Doesn't it boggle the mind that they send them back to school with a holiday the first week? Seriously. Just give you those extra few days. Crazy.
And just fake those first day photos. No one will be the wiser.
Am missing my Jewish holidays this year. Happy back to school!