We had gone to orientation a week earlier. We walked SJ's schedule, but I knew he would still be nervous.
He woke very early on Tuesday. He ate his breakfast and anxiously waited for 6:40 am to appear on the stove clock. His and Bob's bus comes around 6:45. He hasn't rode the school bus since he was in Kindergarten. He was very worried about that bus ride (I was stressed about it all day!).
At 6:35, I took the traditional first day pictures (the boys HATE this tradition). I watched them walk to the bus stop at 6:40. I took a deep breath and hoped for the best!
The boys got home around 3:30. I was babysitting some neighbor kids, so I didn't get to talk to the boys until 4:30. I asked them how their day was. Bob replied with his normal response of "fine".
Then, I looked at SJ to see what he would say. He said, "Well, the bus ride is so long and boring." I reminded him that he could bring his IPod with him and then he wouldn't mind the long bus ride.
"I may have made a bad lunch choice, Mom," added SJ. I said,"What do you mean?" He then told me that Bob said whoever you sit on the first day is who you have to sit with the whole year. I wasn't sure if that was true, so I was going to have to verify that.
It wasn't that he didn't like who he sat with. He was hoping to sit with Willie and Topher. I told him to try and sit with Topher and Willie on Wednesday. I was hoping he would remember to do that.
The last thing I asked him about was his locker. In elementary school, he didn't have a locker. He had been worried about using the lock on his locker all summer. His principal, Mr. Mack, had allowed him to get his lock early to practice his locker combination. That practice really helped him, since there wasn't even one complaint about the lock or locker.
For all the stress I felt all day long, those few problems that SJ told me were so much smaller than I thought he would have. That is a great first day in a new school!
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