On the first day he came home and was pretty amped up to tell everyone there were three whole recesses during school. Three! Fun times! He likes his teacher, and he knows some of the kids from preschool. This summer we realized one thing that worried him about starting to go to school all day was he thought it was going to be ALL DAY. Once he understood all day meant until 3pm and not Mommy or Daddy dropping him off in the morning then picking him up at bedtime he was much more receptive to all day school.

I hope he doesn't, although I suspect he might, get a little sad when the combine starts rolling at harvest. He is more than willing to spend a whole day in the field with us, but now full farm days will be limited to Saturdays. I'll assure him when the time comes that he will have plenty of afternoons and evenings during the week to get his farming fix. He and Mommy like to bring me dinner in the field anyway so we'll be just fine on that front. He's probably going to have a tight schedule because if Daddy, Papaw John, and Big Papaw are in the field then the same work must also be done on the carpet farm. And that's a serious thing at our house.

We are really looking forward to see how he learns and develops over the school year. So far, so good! Leave me a comment below about your back to school thoughts.

Orginally posted on my blog at The Farmer's Life.