Back to School Butterflies

Today the Christmas tree trees are coming down.
Three Christmas trees seemed like such a good idea...until I have to take three down!
I always delay this inevitable moment for as long as possible because...
once the tree trees come down, it's time to think about...

Back to School!

I don't want to think about it, but it's unavoidable what with all the ads on TV and the merchandise front row and centre in the shops.
For as long as I can remember, whether I was in...

primary School

high School

college

teaching

my owns kids starting school...

my life seems to revolve around school,
and the butterflies that go with it.
I don't find new exciting, I find new scary!

I did have a few years reprieve when I resigned from teaching and then had my kids.
Four years, in fact, before my son started kindy.
Four glorious years where I could watch the ads and walk past the school bags, stationery, uniforms and lunch boxes in the shops and feel...nothing.
No butterflies, I loved that!

This year my 3 year old begins kindy.
I'm not exactly happy about that.
I was crying to my husband about it a few nights ago, sooking about not wanting to let her go.
She has been with me pretty much every second of the day for 3 and a half years.
We're always together.
I will miss her terribly!
*Cue lump in my throat*

But at least I have been through this before with my 6 year old boy, so I'm not ridiculously nervous about something totally new and unknown.
I just have butterflies....again.

And my big boy is going into Year 1, in a new classroom at the other end of the school, with a new teacher and some new classmates. So again...butterflies for him, and me!

How do you feel about 'Back to School'?

Do you love the advertising, shopping, preparing???

Or does it give you butterflies, like me??

Now I'm off to...

pick up the book order

wash and label new school uniforms

buy new kindy uniforms

buy new kindy bag and lunch box

cover and label books

Did I forget anything?


PS This is a blog hop and link up for Lori. She needs us...read here...and here

Must Have Classics

Last night was the parent information night for the Prep classes at our son's school.
I have been to many, many of these before.  But last night I got to sit in the chair and just watch and listen which was soooo much easier than being the one standing out the front.  I loved it!

On the way out we collected a handout about developing literacy and on the back was a list of 20 'Must-have classics' for Australian children aged from birth to four, for suggested reading at home.  I'm embarrassed to say we have not one in our house.  But many of them are ones I loved reading to my classes when I was teaching.  So now it is my goal to starting buying up these classics until we have the whole list, well, most, OK, some.

Here are the books...

Do you have any of these?