School Days

Why doesn't HE look nervous? I mean, he's the one starting school tomorrow not me... Maybe we don't really know how scary it is until we're 33 and our 5 year old is starting on his first day.

In the morning I'll be reciting the following little song my dad sang to me to get me up for school, which his mother sang to him, and maybe her parents sang to her. I looked it up on Wikipedia and what I remember is only the first verse. The end doesn't exactly scream "everything will be great", but I don't think he knows what a hickory stick is.

School days, school days
Dear old Golden Rule days
'Reading and 'riting and 'rithmetic
Taught to the tune of the hick'ry stick