The Bigger They Get

Lots of moms are blogging this week about their back to school experiences with the kiddies.  Not me.  While y’all are packing lunches, driving car pools, filling out and signing forms, shopping for school supplies, handling early morning meltdowns (theirs and yours), and helping with homework, I’m SLEEPING LATE and thinking about you and thanking God we’re done with all that.

I will avoid the temptation to say NEENER, NEENER, NEENER!!! Because I’m totally mature now and also because I know if I said that you’d just say, “Well, yeah, but you’re OLD!”

And you’d be right.  But not too old to remember what it was like.  And truthfully?  I’d rather be old.

I admit, all of the back to school bloggage this week has made me a little nostalgic.  So I dug through some of the papers I saved (three kids x 12 years of school each plus preschool - I have LOTS of papers) and found some oldies but goodies to share with you.  Those of you with really young kids will get an idea of what you have to look forward to.  Those of you with older kids will nod your heads and say, thank God my kid’s not the only one…

There are plenty more where these came from (I’m still looking for the list of things I found in my 7th grade son’s locker when we cleaned it out in June of that year.  Oh my, my my).

First up,  Daughter was in fourth grade when she wrote the following:

In the event this is difficult to read, let me clarify: Daughter did not go to school in an Elm tree.  That was her 4th grade abbreviation for Elementary.  The line that slays me is, I went in a normal child and came out a mature person.

And she spent the next few years insisting we treat her like an adult.  Fun times.

I can’t wait until she has kids so I can ask her to define “normal child” for me.

On to Son One.  This first paper is from 10th grade.  Oy.

If you need to click to enlarge that so you can read it, it’s worth it.  It will make you feel SO much better about your kid.

Son One also brought home this evaluation of a speech he gave in Public Speaking:

“Could be more engaging?”  Really?  He seems like a total sweetheart to me.  My guess is that teacher had it in for him…*choke* *splutter*

And our last example of gray-hair-and-wrinkle-inducing schoolwork for today comes courtesy of Son Two, written while in 7th grade:

Does anyone else feel like the next line should be “Before I’m forced to eat Coma Guy”?

I don’t have a clue what instructions Ms. Dauhmer gave the kids for this assignment, but my mind spins with grisly possibilities.

Well, that’s it for today folks.  I’ve got to get going if I’m going to have time to not pack lunches while not helping with homework and not looking for forms that don’t have to be returned tomorrow and that didn’t get lost somewhere between school and home.

If I have a chance when I’m not so busy not doing school-related stuff, I’ll see what else I can dig up in the Kids’ School Stuff Box to post here from time to time.

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