Robert and I took the kids to their first day of school today. I drove while Robert took videos from the front seat. Which was lots of fun for our younger two, but incredibly embarrassing for Jessica, our 6th grader. The funniest part was I saw a camera flashing away in the car in front of us, apparently doing exactly the same thing we were.
Our school strongly discourages parents from walking their child to their classroom on the first day of school, “as this will cause mass confusion.” Since I wasn’t allowed to get out of the car with my youngest on his very first day of big boy school, Robert and I chose to hold up the entire car pool line while we snapped more pictures and took more video. Not one bit embarrassing for us, however, all we captured on film of Jessica (our 6th grader) was the back of her perfectly styled blond head running quickly and furiously into the school. I’m confident that if I were able to see her face she would have most certainly been rolling her eyes. Little does she know that middle school will be full of more embarrassing moments!
August 13th, 2008 at 10:47 am
I snapped some shots of our first day of school too! Capturing those few moments of excitement and anticipation before the homework sets in is quite a joy.
August 24th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
I have a picture of my son walking in the past three years in almost the same spot… The first year he was cool and looked behind toward the camera. The next year there was no turning back… And this year, I just snapped the shot with out him knowing and put the camera back in my pocket. *smile* A picture is just required the first day of school… Right?