Can you feel it in the air?
Can you smell it too?
Can you believe the first day of school is already here...
or will come shortly?
How can that be? We are still in the middle of August!
what happened to school starting the day after Labor Day?)
Somehow, the summer of 2010 slipped on by...
(what summer? did you feel any hot, sizzling days?)
Well, I've been dusting off the memories...
taking a rag to those tradition cobwebs of years gone by...
and reflecting upon that first day of school:
Do you...
Remember that new clothes smell...
and picking out the outfit the night before?
Remember going out the front door...
and hearing what sounded like "Whahoo!!" coming from the kitchen?
Remember buying new binders, paper, pens, pencils, lunch pails and backpacks...
even though you have perfectly good ones in your closet?
Remember that nervous anticipation....
because school was something new to you?
Remember meeting your teacher...
and checking the list to find out which friends are in your class?
Remember the joy of seeing your friends...
some of which you hadn't seen since the last day of school in June?
Remember your mother snapping embarrassing photos
in front of the school sign..
hoping none of your friends will notice?
And remember finding your desk...
the one you will sit at for the next 9 months?
Oh, how it seems like yesterday...
oh me, oh my...
time sure does fly.
What do you remember of that first day of school?
