Loose Strife

I keep getting asked how Lily’s first day of school went. She’s now had two half days and starts full days of kindergarten on Tuesday. So far so good. Excitement riding the bus and only good things to say about school.

As a girl of few words who clams up when asked for details, she has actually volunteered that at the end of the first day of school the students were asked to rank school from 0 to 5 stars and she gave it a 4! And today she said that the visit to meet her teacher last spring was “boring”, but she has changed her mind and thinks that school is a lot of fun! Partly this is because she knows about half of her class from the Ashfield Preschool and one of those is her (new) “best friend Jaden!” (Shown at right with teacher. Thumb firmly in mouth as she starts to zone out, perhaps overwhelmed with new stimuli.)
Lunch money, gym class, school assemblies. It’s all old hat now. When I tell her that her next day of school isn’t until Tuesday because of a holiday on Monday, she rolls her eyes at me and says “Dad!” in an exasperated tone. “I know. They told me that at school already.”