So who cried today ?

[everything*that*i*ever*wanted]

We sent Miss 12yo off to her first day at Highschool today. The past 7 years have just flown by.

As I walked back to my car all I could think about was the same trip back to my car 7 years before...her first day at Kindy...

[annies_fancy_dress]

It feels stranger when you take your son to TAFE at the same you started at 21 years before.

[dskracing]

Not going to cry at all...rather sigh with relief when I send Miss 16 back to school on Monday...Yr 12...one more yr and then Uni

Hopefully have her licence by then

[catsnknots]

I cried today... got a call from the SEP to make sure my son was ok.... we are fine and have everything we need... wanted to check to see if any family needed anything like uniforms and was told that yes, there is one family that lost everything... putting together my list of things I can offer... an old but good laptop, single bed, bedside table... 

not a lot but something.. 

[stellan*river]

I cried my son went back to school I liked having him home.

[everything*that*i*ever*wanted]

Well today Miss almost 16yo was able to go back to school and into Year 11. I haven't shared on here I don't think, but she is now living with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis and for all but 4 days of the second half of last year she was unable to attend school. She did partial home schooling and had to give that up as well as her little casual job. We had an interview with the Principal yesterday and she didn't have to repeat.

She has improved in the past couple of months and chose to dive in and get back to school full time. We have a great team behind us and I am sure she will do well.

So I am a proud Mum to a Year 7 daughter and a Year 11 daughter this year.

[vampire-teddy]

i get teary this time of year every year because i have never and will never have a little one going off to school.  i would love to be buying books and uniforms and taking a child to school.  maybe one day we will foster.

[catsnknots]

so sorry to hear that Vamps... we often do forget that there are people that do not have kids and their heart breaks too.... 

[vampire-teddy]

sorry didn't mean to be a downer.  i have a few friends has young ones going to high school in year 7 next year in Qld for the first time.  they will look so little going off to high school.  

[catsnknots]

You are not being a downer... :-x

[everything*that*i*ever*wanted]

Not a downer at all VT. My sister struggles every year too. She always said from the time she turned 19 that she would never have kids coz she knew she was not stable enough in life and her choice in partners was not good (still not much better). At the age of 30ish she started going through menopause after treatment for cervical cancer. She had to have a hysterectomy so the "choice" was taken away from her. She then began to notice more and more people that were drug addicts and having addicted babies, people that didn't provide for their children etc etc and it hit her terribly hard as it was now not just a choice she could change.
The first day of school things are one of the many things she struggles with.

Your emotions are just as legitimate as everyone elses' honey, my thoughts are with you.