First Day of School Photo

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Not once in my years of motherhood have my kids ever been ready to go back to school. (Except for Lewis in preschool, but technically that wasn’t going back to school.)

I know there are moms out there who love the smell of freshly sharpened pencils and can’t wait to go back-to-school shopping. (I am not one of you.)

I also know there kids out there who pour over their schedules and spend hours figuring out what to wear the first day. (My children are not those kids.)

My boys D.R.E.A.D. the day. (I like to think it’s because their mom is so darn cool to hang out with that they can’t bear the thought of weekdays without her.)

There are things my kids genuinely like about school (especially my social bug Lewis), but looking forward to the first day? It has never happened, and I don’t think it’s going to happen any time in the foreseeable future.

Because of the semi-mournful atmosphere in my household on the first day of school, I refrain from first day of school photos.  But my above piece of artwork captures the emotion of the morning quite well.

Kudos to those moms out there who have successfully trained their children to be excited about the start of a new year. I’m missing that page in my parenting manual.

By KimHarms

Kim Harms is an author, speaker, and part-time library assistant with two decades of freelance writing experience. She has a degree in English from Iowa State University. She and her husband Corey have three super-awesome sons and one crazy dog. A two-time breast cancer survivor, her first book, Life Reconstructed: Navigating the World of Mastectomies and Breast Reconstruction (Familius), is a guide for women walking the breast cancer road. She is currently working on her second book, a devotional for women going through breast cancer.

2 comments

  1. Kim…want to know I am still reading and enjoying your writings. I am thinking the reasons your kids are not sniffing freshly sharpened pencils bears some thinking. Might be some good stuff there. I so appreciate your talents and willingness to share!

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