Anything that needed to start, did. School routines. Homework. Parent Volunteer Forms. PTC meetings. Playdates. Soccer practices. Even birthday parties. The kids are all loving their teachers and hanging out with their friends again, although Ty's jury is still out on the matter, as he told me the other day "I love school, but I'd rather stay home and play the w-i-i" Why yes, he did learn how to spell wii ;).
But with all the busy-ness, the oddest part of it all, is how a community of 115, 781 people (as of 1/1/10 ;) can almost feel like family. At least we're the proverbial "village". We're carpooling together. We're making decisions together. We're aligning our calendars. We're celebrating each other's successes and empathizing with the struggles.
And as our kids have gotten older and more involved, we're finding that we're starting to run into the same people... well everywhere. Kevin from the tennis league is at Islands. Summer's mom (from Gwen's soccer team last year) is Ty's teacher (a big surprise as he's in a different district). Ty has a preschool buddy Luke, who's dad was working at the ER when Ty got his stitches, so we had an impromptu discussion about this year's educational plan for the boys. The list goes on and on...
As we ran into each familiar face, our first reaction was to mentally run backwards through our calendars and try to place the face. And then almost as quickly, try to remember the impression we made. Were we too rowdy at soccer games? Were we engaging or seem disinterested? It feel like lots of other parents (in my village ;) are going through the same emotions, as the sentiment that keeps running through our minds, is that you just never know when you're going to run into someone again... and need them.
So, our lesson learned?
Leave your "bridges" better than you found 'em.
'Cause you never want to leave a bad impression. ;)
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