Today I dropped my little boy off at school for his first day of Pre-K!! Leading up to this week my mom kept telling me that I need to take pictures and that I would want them later. I agree, I wanted to take pictures. The only problem is that I know my son all too well. I tried getting one of him with his backpack and lunch box and everything. He wanted no part of it. He apparently inherited the same gene as his uncle, my brother. Neither of them will willingly take a picture. If you do get my brother in a picture he is making a funny face. Drives our mother nuts and now, she has a grandson that does the same thing! She even got my son a special shirt for today. It’s a monster truck and it says “I’m ready to crush Pre-K!” Luckily, we were still getting into the car when she walked out to her car. She had to bribe him with a kiss for a picture. The only picture I was able to get was right before we pulled out of our driveway and it was not a friendly face.

Now, he is going to the school my siblings and I all attended as well as our parents, aunts & uncles, and cousins. It is a consolidated school district and the schools that combined were the ones our grandparents attended even. I knew traffic would probably be bad this morning but pulling out of our street was actually fairly easy. Then, we rounded the curve. This is where it gets a little iffy. This curve is famous. Part of the traffic problem is just the way the roads were made. There is a small straight stretch on either side of the curve but you can’t actually see around it. So, you’re cruising along at 45, you take this curve, and you stop. That is right, this is where the traffic is backed up to. Just enough on the other side of the curve that you can’t see the stopped cars. There are always a couple of accidents every year in this exact spot. It is one of those spots where, if you are the last one in line you pray whoever comes around the curve next is paying attention and not flying down this two lane road! The reason this road is backed up is because elementary, middle, and high school buildings are in one place. It’s not an inner city school district. However, to get to the middle school you have to drive through the elementary line, and to get to the elementary you have to drive past the high school line. So on the main street you have the joining of three different drop off/pick up lines.

To say the least, this is going to be a fun year.