Back To School

It's Monday. But not just any Monday
This is the Monday that brings either sorrow or great rejoicing... depending on your age. 
It is the Monday that contains a flurry of those special photos of little ones with new back packs. 
Photos of them at their lockers, with their new teacher, climbing those over-sized bus stairs. 
Photos of new clothes and mom-put-the-camera-away glances. 
It is, my friends, time for Back To School! 

Normally... like every year before this one, I dreaded the view of those photos because it could only mean one thing:

Summer was over. 
And I had to go back to school

okay... that's two things. 

This is the first year in many many years that I am not standing on the precipice of a new school year.

It's weird, yes. 
But also quite exciting! 

This year I am staying home with Lucy instead of going back to teaching. 
And at some point I'm sure I'll write a nice, sappy post all about that transition.
But not today, friends. Not today.

For today I just wanted to leave you with this video to celebrate the start of a new school year and to honor all of your and your kiddos' first days at or back at school. 

This is Lucy's interpretive dance to the back-to-school classic "The Wheels on the Bus" 
In your honor.

My apologies that I turned my camera part way through which totally makes you, the viewer, have to lay your ear on your shoulder to watch this... but it's worth it, I promise.