{"id":38794390,"date":"2007-09-07T13:01:55","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T13:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/2007\/09\/back-to-school.html"},"modified":"2013-04-09T00:22:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T00:22:23","slug":"200709back-to-school-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/2007\/09\/07\/200709back-to-school-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to School"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, where does the summer go? Ours was full and fun, but now September is here once again, and this week was time for heading Back-to-School<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We’ve now left elementary school behind, as Colleen enters middle school as a 6th grader, and Will is now our second child in high school. For the last twelve years we’ve had one or more kids attending Henderson Elementary School<\/a>, and I’d like to say thanks for the great job they did for each of them.<\/p>\n

This morning, Colleen and I walked to our respective bus stops together. My pickup is just across the street from hers, and just a few minutes earlier. It was kind of strange, standing across the street waving at each other. Her to catch a school bus to take her five miles to school, and me to catch a commuter bus to take me 30 miles to work.<\/p>\n

Tonight I rushed home from work to make it to Back-to-School night at my daughter Katie’s high school. The parents there followed their children’s schedule from class to class, spending 10 minutes in each for a quick introduction and overview from the teachers. I have to confess, it made me glad that high school is far behind me. She will have a heavy workload in classes that I hope will engage as well as challenge her.<\/p>\n

If we continued counting years as grades in our ongoing education of life, then this fall I’m a 37th grader. I’m not done learning, but the degrees I work for now come bi-weekly and have dollar signs on them.<\/p>\n

Oh yeah, and looking back at last year, we can’t forget what else going back-to-school brings next<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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