I have already had a few meetings and responsibilites to take care of this week, so the kids can return to school on Monday.  We will have an 11th grader, an 8th grader, a 6th grader and a 5th grader.  OY.

Let’s just say I apologized to those teachers who had to have more than one of our kids during the course of their day 🙂

And it doesn’t help that the elementary grades post their supply lists but for the high schoolers, we have to wait for meet-n-greet night (which was last night) before we get their supply lists.  As if we have an endless supply of time over the weekend to get all of their back-to-school shopping done, as well as shopping for MORE supplies???  Crazy!

But, I want to take a minute to recognize our school’s teachers.  I have to tell you that meet-n-greet night is much more than introducing the kids to their teachers and dropping off their supplies.  It’s hugs.  It’s love.  It’s general caring about each individual student and the opportunities the teachers have to teach the kids something.  It truly warms a Mom’s heart.  I went to a much larger school (the kids’ school only has about 300 students from Pre-K through 12th grade), so we not only have students involved in their school, we have teachers who are just as involved in their students and all of them in the community as a whole.  It makes for a much more close-knit group of people that you really want to call your friends.

I’ll be here Monday, celebrating with an Irish jig (as such suits this partial-Irish lass) as the kids are carted off on the big yellow bus to their home away from home for the next 10 months!