The days of rock n roll all night and partying all day are officially over.
School is back in session.
I, for one, couldn’t be happier.
No longer will I come home from work to find kids in pajamas….or not up at all.
Cereal will be reserved for the morning…except for me…I do what I want.
They will be in bed by 10pm and up and gone before 8am.
No more teen movies or video game marathons.
The first day was today.
My stepson is a senior.
My stepdaughter a sophomore.
I had to leave by 7:35 in order to make it to work on time.
My stepdaughter got up at 6:45.
My stepson…7:28.
She came out dressed in her new clothes, looking fresh and ready to go.
He came out in the jeans he had worn for the last 3 days, a t shirt and ball cap.
She had her backpack, which had notebooks, binder, pens, pencils and a daily planner, already filled out with upcoming events.
He had his headphones plugged into his phone…..no pen, paper or anything remotely school related.
As we left and drove toward the school I couldn’t help but wonder how one could be so prepared while the other was so….not.
They grew up in the same house, with the same rules and same emphasis put on their studies.
My thought was interrupted by an outburst from my stepdaughter right as we pulled into the school parking lot.
“I forgot my drill team stuff.”
My reply,
“You mean…the stuff that you have used for two a day practices every day for the last 2 weeks to prepare you for this weeks performance and today’s practice?”
“Yes.”
Uggh.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”
Another school year has begun.
Quote from “A Tale Of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens
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