First Day of School

After all the preparation, it's exciting to see the kids back at school. I particularly enjoyed talking with last year's eighth graders, who are now big high school students but still deign to speak to me. The new seventh graders were not as bad as reported, but then six of them are still missing. And then my eighth graders...it seems to me that the summer between seventh and eighth grades is one of the biggest times of change. Some of them grew up remarkably since the last time I saw them.

Here's to a great school year!

(Oh, and by the way, I had a couple of conversations about Breaking Dawn, and I was right about the reaction - see yesterday's post.)