The one "I am skipping through a field of flowers with the sun on my back and my long gauzy clothes blowing in the gentle breeze" moment of my recent life is how wonderfully Matt has adopted to High School. After the middle school that didn't exist for 6th grade ordeal (the one where Matt didn't attend school for a year and I wasn't allowed to try to home school him because we had hired a lawyer so he just kind of hung out with me which was really fun but caused me much stress anxiety ordeal) I was holding my breath to see how this transition would go. And it was all so... easy. I am still afraid to say anything, but I AM SO FREAKING HAPPY ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL I CAN NOT EVEN TELL YOU.
Tonight was the night when the parents go to the school to listen to speedy 15 minute presentations by each of our kids teachers. I loved them all. Seriously, I want to take 9th grade science. I totally want to take science. I just might be jealous. Cause Matt gets to take science. It's gonna be awesome. I might have a girl crush on Matt's art teacher. And the books they are going to read for English... well, I am reading them too. And Matt better be prepared to come home and discuss. I want discussion! I could really use the social studies, it was never my strong subject but I'll pass on the math, because while it all looks totally familiar, and I know that I aced that test in 1978, it is most definitely the kind of math that most of the population is not going to need ever, in their whole lives, and I know that for a "I have made it to 42 years and haven't needed it yet" fact.
Oh my goodness, I recognize that the time is here. My kid is about to be way smarter than me. I figure I'll have the advantage for maybe another week or two, and then forget about it. But I am just going to remember that Matt goes to school early every day, even when he has study hall first period, so I think I'll go to bed with that thought loop in my mind and maybe not the weight of the world on my shoulders tonight.
Also, a special "Hello" to those fellow Stepford residents who took me surprise and delurked in person tonight. That look on my face was complete shock, like when you see your favorite bank teller all dressed up sexy on a date in a bar and for a minute or two your two separate worlds spin off axis until... you know something like that.
Did you blog about this Matt not going to school for a year thing? What was that all about? How is that okay? How is better to NOT homeschool him at that point?
Posted by: Laura | October 05, 2007 at 07:37 AM
I'm so glad that Matt's transition into high school is going great! But I want to hear more about 6th grade!! :0)
Posted by: Jen - Mom of 4 | October 06, 2007 at 10:07 PM