Mixed Emotions

We were all up early to support Zebedee on his big day - his first day of Secondary School! Naturally Zebedee was quite nervous but also looking forward to it, we drove there and I walked him round, the school is having a rebuild which amused Zebedee!
The 'children' look enormous!!!!!! Anyway we found the other boys from his old school and Zebedee was the only one with a Blazer, they started comparing phones, then I went to chat to the head of his college about getting him a locker etc and when I looked round to take his heavy sports bag home for him having found out they don't have cloakrooms and that he doesn't need it today - he was gone!
Luckily I was wearing sunglasses to hide my tears.

I went to the same school from age 5-13 so the Secondary transition wasn't a big deal, it just meant you didn't have to wear a tunic buttoned onto your skirt anymore, at 13 I left my small private girl's school and went to a massive mixed comprehensive in Crowborough and lived with my Dad for a few months while my Mum moved house, what a shock that was and then on to a new girl's Comprehensive in Brighton the year the grammar and the local rough state school were joined, that was an eye opener!