It doesn't seem like five minutes ago that I dropped her off for her first day of school.
As I got back in the car, bottom lip trembling, I switched on the radio.
I kid you not, this was the very Abba song that was playing:
' In this old familiar room,
Children would play.
Now there's only emptiness,
Nothing to say...'
And now, six years later, I'm standing in the play ground and pretty soon I won't be needed to do the school run any more.
All I know is that in September, when Mini Goth leaves the house in her blazer and tie, I won't be switching the radio on.
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Oh it goes so quickly... we all cry on the first day, then it's a blur of sports days, plays, school trips, friends home for tea... and then it's the last day and your throat just seizes up again. x
ReplyDeleteIt's good to k ow it's not just me.....I knew every Mum has gone through the same thing, but it just hits you doesn't it, all of a sudden! X
DeleteOoh I know doesn't it fly by? And that feeling when you have dropped them off for the first day at Primary school...I had a little cry on the way home! Just as well I hadn't tuned in to ABBA. I'd have been fit for nowt!
ReplyDeleteMy children are 25 now and still remember the feeling I found some photos the other day; one taken on their first day of Primary and one on their last day of Secondary standing in the same spot in the garden. Time of another quick sniffle!
xx
Sorry for setting you off too!
DeleteIt's just good to know others understand out there in Blog Land! X
My Tall Girl also leaves first school for middle school in a few weeks and will be making her own way there. She seems awfully little for such big responsibilities (9) so we have been easing our way in gently with practice walks to safe destinations. I will still be needed to take my boys to school but it does feel very strange. Eleanor
ReplyDeleteBless her!
DeleteI bet she will feel very grown up indeed. Just don't do what my Mum did and followed me by hiding in the bushes!!! X
Its worse when you think about it! just dont think about it?
ReplyDeletelove D xx
Quite right chuck!
DeleteI will pull myself together, I feel a lot better already! X
You big softie! I am quite relieved that time and kids move on, the tyranny of the school run is losing its grip as even my youngest makes her own way now. It's great! xxx
ReplyDeleteHa! Thanks chuck!
DeleteYou've cheered me up a treat x