Looking Forward to 2nd Grade

I'm very excited, I'm 99.9 percent sure that DB will have the teachers I was hoping for next year. One of his classmates' moms confirmed it, and she flat-out asked them directly.

We've done so little this summer that he's actually looking forward to school, a little bit -- seeing his friends, at least. And being back in the routine, I think.

Though he'll miss staying in his pjs half the day.

He's definitely more mature than a year ago, I can see a huge difference in his anxiety level as school approaches. Last year he was in a panic for most of August, and this year it's much milder.

It probably helped that the start is late for us -- next Tuesday -- so he got to enjoy his birthday separate from the start of school.