Sunday, August 03, 2003
The August of My Life
It's August already? My firstborn launches her teaching career on August 18th. I have a child who is starting a career??? I'm not old enough to have a child with a career. OK, I am... but I don't FEEL old enough! My son begins his sophomore year in college in two weeks. My baby, the youngest of the three, leaves for her first year in college in two weeks. I can't believe it's August.
As I mentioned, Tiffany begins her first teaching job on the 18th. Her birthday is six days later. She usually gives me a very practical birthday list... things she needs for her apartment... things she needs -- period. And then there's one thing that's "extravagant." Usually a CD or something. This year, the only things on her list are things for her new classroom. And she has made it clear that it's OK to celebrate her birthday before the 24th so that she'll have her classroom ready.
Tiffany's List
Desk Organizer (16" wide x ??" deep -- it's a really deep drawer, so depth doesn't matter)
Inspirational or Math Posters (she's teaching 8th grade math)
Sticky Wall Hangers
Hanging Plants / Flowers
Expo Dry Erase Board Eraser (the new kind with the layers that peel off)
Dark Post-Its (not pastel... she already has pastel for the girls. She wants dark "boy" colors for the boys)
She crossed off the 4 AA Batteries... presumably because she found them on sale at Big Lots already.
The swallows that nest on our front porch are back every day for a few hours, even though the two rounds of babies have flown the coop. The other day, one of the babies (we named him Nemo) was sitting INSIDE the nest just squawking away. The mama bird would zip by every once in a while to check up on little Nemo. At every pass,l he would open his mouth hoping for food just like he did when he was a baby. I assume this is what it's like when grown kids move back home.
That's not gonna happen with Tiffany. Any kid who asks for inspirational posters and dry erase board erasers for her birthday pretty much has her life in the bag. That makes her visits back home even more special. That's what makes the "August of my life" worth living. That, and the fact that her birthday list is only gonna cost me about twenty bucks!
Life is good.
It's August already? My firstborn launches her teaching career on August 18th. I have a child who is starting a career??? I'm not old enough to have a child with a career. OK, I am... but I don't FEEL old enough! My son begins his sophomore year in college in two weeks. My baby, the youngest of the three, leaves for her first year in college in two weeks. I can't believe it's August.
As I mentioned, Tiffany begins her first teaching job on the 18th. Her birthday is six days later. She usually gives me a very practical birthday list... things she needs for her apartment... things she needs -- period. And then there's one thing that's "extravagant." Usually a CD or something. This year, the only things on her list are things for her new classroom. And she has made it clear that it's OK to celebrate her birthday before the 24th so that she'll have her classroom ready.
Tiffany's List
Desk Organizer (16" wide
Inspirational or Math Posters (she's teaching 8th grade math)
Sticky Wall Hangers
Hanging Plants / Flowers
Expo Dry Erase Board Eraser (the new kind with the layers that peel off)
Dark Post-Its (not pastel... she already has pastel for the girls. She wants dark "boy" colors for the boys)
She crossed off the 4 AA Batteries... presumably because she found them on sale at Big Lots already.
The swallows that nest on our front porch are back every day for a few hours, even though the two rounds of babies have flown the coop. The other day, one of the babies (we named him Nemo) was sitting INSIDE the nest just squawking away. The mama bird would zip by every once in a while to check up on little Nemo. At every pass,l he would open his mouth hoping for food just like he did when he was a baby. I assume this is what it's like when grown kids move back home.
That's not gonna happen with Tiffany. Any kid who asks for inspirational posters and dry erase board erasers for her birthday pretty much has her life in the bag. That makes her visits back home even more special. That's what makes the "August of my life" worth living. That, and the fact that her birthday list is only gonna cost me about twenty bucks!
Life is good.
