September 1st. My question is, where did the summer go?
As a child, this was the most anticipated/dreaded time of the year. Back to school. School supplies shopping, new clothes, new shoes.Wondering who your teacher was going to be. Hoping it wasn't the one that was a bore.Arranging all your new supplies on the living room floor. Opening packages of pens and pencils, filling binders with looseleaf. Convincing your mother that you really did NEED that pack of 60 Laurentien pencil crayons.Picking out the 'First Day of School' outfit. That needed to be just perfect, because it needed to show the other kids that you were cool and trendy. (I am sure that they were all paying attention.)Not being able to sleep the night before school started, partly out of excitement, partly out of fear of what the next day will bring.
School starts.
Where did the summer go?
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yes hillary, you have described the back to school season perfectly. and why did going back to school seem incomplete without that new pack of pencil crayons? oh school supplies. good times. i like how you write. love you.