It's here. I can hardly believe it. My oldest daughter starts high school today.
But today I am mostly overwhelmed with the fact that I have a daughter who is old enough to be in high school. High school! Didn't she look like this yesterday?
And who am I to think that I could even dream of homeschooling her for high school. I said I would never do that. I swore! In reality I never set out to homeschool at all in the first place! But that is another story for another time.
But yet, I feel vastly ill equipped. Terribly under qualified. And quite frankly scared to death!
What if?
This is high school. You know, the time you prep for college? For adulthood? For scholarships?
But then I am reminded. I did get her this far. I am so proud of the young woman she is becoming. Intelligent. Compassionate. Witty. Gifted. Beautiful.
And ultimately she really isn't mine, is she? She belongs to the One who created her, and she knows it! On her finger is my Hebrew ring that says, Child of God. I love that she wanted one. I love that she wears it everyday.
So I will do my very best, that's all I can do.
On another note, it's my birthday week. I will be doing some fun giveaways and sales and specials so that you can celebrate WITH me! For today, I am giving away one Hebrew ring!
Don't forget....
BE creative!
~ lisa
Would LOVE to win the Hebrew ring!! Love your work, Lisa!!
ReplyDeleteI remember feeling very small, invisible and in awe of the older students, who seemed so 'cool' and 'together'. Then I realized I WAS small - I didn't pass 4'10" until almost junior year!
ReplyDeleteSam Frazier (this will only let me post as 'anonymous'....rather ironic, don't you think?
And oh, I don't really remember my first day of High School...Seriously. I am sure I was nervous and excited! Other than that, can't remember a thing!!!
ReplyDeleteWhen highschool rolled around, I remember thinking that maybe I would fit in with the other "cool" kinds finally. Well, that didn't happen. After awhile, I realized that maybe not fitting in wasn't such a bad thing after all. Here's to being homeschooled all through highschool! You go girl!
ReplyDeleteYikes! That was a long time ago (31 years). I went to a small, private boys school in Ohio (Gilmour Academy). Not your typical public high school. It's not just one building, so we were outside a lot. I remember cool, crisp air - my own locker - lots of lunch choices - Chorus first period with Brother Dan (BDK) - mythology class with Miss Coffey in the Reading Cottage - Algebra with Mrs. Saporito - art class in the Art Barn - Cross Country practice with Mr. Primeau. I know that's more than one thing, but it's a nice tapestry of memories. Thanks for prompting me to think about it. I hope Anneke has a great day! Good luck Anneke!
ReplyDeleteI remember being introduced by my friend to many of my new classmates (I transferred from a different school) and they were very friendly and welcoming. And the girls wanted me to play basketball because of my height. :)
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, I don't think I can remember that far back, so I'll tell you how I felt last Monday when my baby went to H.S. for her first day.
ReplyDeleteI took her picture (as we have always done on the first day of school) and then I wept. Tears of joy, tears of the years passing by entirely too fast. And excitement for all that lies ahead for her!
Nan Graham aka Gab Gal Nan
Wow! That taxes my memory -- lol!! It has been a lot of years since my first day of high school, but I remember it so vividly. I should have been scared to death (I was coming from a very small rural school to a school of over 4,000!!!!), but I wasn't. I was just so excited about the opportunities before me. I remember walking into "home room" the first day to discover a friend was also in the same class. And then I discovered that it was also the school newspaper class!! I had no idea such a thing existed and immediately volunteered to inter a new teacher. That was the beginning of four fantastic, memorable, fun-filled years:-)
ReplyDeleteI was so petrified walking to high school - I had moved back to the town after middle school elsewhere. The walk to school was the longest walk ever!
ReplyDeleteShe is so, so lovely! And I certainly think that she (and you, too) will do wonderfully with high school.
ReplyDeleteYou know how much I've loved that ring from the moment I first saw it! The story behind it is so passionate and so close to my heart.
But that's not what you asked, is it? :-)
Hmmm...I don't remember my first day of high school. I had concert band for first period, so I'm sure I was sassin' the band director (who is a long-time family friend).
I remember (good long-term-memory!!!) that I was just basically NERVOUS of the unknown (nothing, really!) but loved, loved, loved my new clothes and book bag! Thanks for the chance of WINNING your ring! BTW, your daughter is adorable AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUUUUUUUUUUU!
ReplyDeleteMy first day of high school was an emotional one. I had gone to school with the same 30 kids from Kindergarten through 8th grade, and I was the only one from my elementary school class going to this high school. Thankfully I had decided to play basketball and over the summer I had already established some friendships but as I walked through the doors that day I remember feeling a huge wave of nervousness, anxiety, and fear wash over me. As I saw some of my teammates those feelings subsided, and I made it through the first day. One big part of that day was, however, the fact that I said lots of prayers. This truly made the difference as it still does today. ~dewittda@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteI remember it vividly. I was so excited about what to wear with my new black and white striped converse all stars. Every outfit for months revolved around those shoes..... :)
ReplyDeleteShe is such a cute girl!!! I hope she has a blast~ xoxo
My freshman year I went to the same private school that I had attended for Jr high...so the transition wasn't too rough (my sophomore year in KC was another story!) I do remember getting totally wigged out for Bio tests, and my English teacher who was so spacy because she wished she was actually living in a Shakespearean sonnet. My 9th grade year was one of my all-time favorites; I was challenged academically and athletically, and developed friendships that I still maintain. I hope Anneke has a similar experience! Good luck girl!! (I can hardly believe how old she is either!)
ReplyDeletexoxo Katy
It's been so long...but I do recall that I was at an all-girls school, wearing my beautiful uniform, which included stockings and a pair of flats. I had dropped something on my big toe a few days prior, which caused a subungual hematoma. The pressure from the hematoma was causing tremendous pain, and I could barely walk. Then someone stepped on my foot and I thought I would die. Actually, I thought she would die!!! That's all I remember about my first day of high school. Your daughter is BEAUTIFUL! chantz5@charter.net
ReplyDeleteAnneke looks great! hope the day goes well :)
ReplyDeletemy first day of high-school, I had a science class after orchestra. I wanted to put my viola in my locker so I asked my teacher if I could quickly go get rid of it, she said yes, so I left. unfortunately, I did not know my way around the school quite yet. i wandered hopelessly for the next 10 minutes, to afraid to ask anyone how to get to the freshman hallway, so I ended up back in my science classroom, with my viola. fortunately, my teacher said nothing-but I felt like such a dummy! thinking about it now, I laugh because the school is fairly small, and the whole time I was about 5 steps away from my locker. ah well!
Oh, that first day of High School! First off, blessings to your daughter and happy b'day to you!
ReplyDeleteWhat I remember of my first day of H.S. was that the seniors tried to sell us newbies something called "elevator tickets" so we wouldn't have to walk up and down the stairs. Fortunately I already knew that our school didn't have an elevator!!
I also remember a strange ritual called Running for Classes. No pre-registration, just a 1/2 hour in homeroom filling out our schedule cards with what we wanted to take. Then a bell rang and we all scrambled. If your chosen classroom was already filled by the time you got there, too bad. Off you went running again, all through the 7 period day. Sort of like musical chairs with consequences. Being small, fast and desperate, I always got a seat first time around. ;)
What a lovely girl you have there! Let's see, when I went to H.S. it was grades 10, 11 and 12 (junior high was 7, 8, 9). I don't remember the first day at all. Or 2nd, or 3rd....I seriously blocked out high school! I was so miserable. So unpopular.
ReplyDeletemy first day of high school was actually summer school right after 8th grade graduation. it was the first time the kids from the four feeder K-8 schools were all in one place -- but it was a really easy transition to a scary place. by the time we got to september, we (sorta) knew our way around and it took the edge off the fear.
ReplyDeletenow, i'm looking at my daughter -- my baby, the last of the mohicans -- starting her senior year.
wow.
My first day of high school!! Iwas so trill and so shy at the same time!! I was looking foward to see my friends and new one! But i was in the same time Scare...!! I was so nervious to find the perfect out fit!! And after all it was a blast high school! A pefect day!!
ReplyDeleteAnd also Happy birthday et just hope that you daugther will enjoy H.S!!
Melanie Robillard on facebook!
I was in a specialized Junior High where we did 7th, 8th and 9th in about 1 year and half instead of 3 full years. So when I started High School, I went into the school in 10th grade, not 9th. So while I was a year and half younger than my classmates, I was also way shorter and starting in Sophomore year so pretty much everyone was already in their cliques and had established friendships. Even though I was technically a Sophomore like them, I was younger and shorter and felt like an oddball!
ReplyDeleteAnd BTW I have a nephew in HS, where on earth does the time go?
Congrats on your beautiful DD and Very happy birthday to YOU! Thanks for the giveaway! :)
XoXo,
Tracy @ Ascending Butterfly
(above is also my email by removing spaces and adding the .com of course) ;-)
Beautiful girl! My first day of high school was unbearably hot, but I wanted to wear a new sweater I had just gotten. (This was before AC in schools.) So I did. And I was miserable all day. The next day was shorts and a T-shirt.
ReplyDeleteI remember feeling highly insecure. And a total nerd!
ReplyDeleteMary B
mborgman70@yahoo.com
Yeah, and I forgot to leave an email. bensrib@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteYour daughter looks just like you! I will venture to guess that you already knew that as you do see her daily. lol
ReplyDeleteMy first day of high school is much like any first day of anything...full of butterflies. Never think anyone will like me. That I will not remember my locker combination. The potential to fall, etc.... But for high school, I changed it up! Had a friend spend the night so we could go to school together. This avoided the 'no one will like me' scenario as at least ONE did lol and then I didn't have to search for someone I knew. ;) It worked out. Ha! Take that, first day! :p
I don't remember that far back, but high school was in general 3 years full of insecurity. I never felt like I measured up to others or to my teacher's opinions of my potential. But I do remember it was WAY better than Junior High!
ReplyDeleteAnd I understand your feelings--My husband and I said "anything but homeschooling" and I begin my 12th year having graduated one last year and #2 begins Running Start at the local college. I just ask God every year if He wants us to keep doing life this way and so far He keeps saying "yes!".
Good luck on your new school year. Blessings on your birthday!
Love,
Robin
mcakaycountry at comcast dot net
I remember my first day of high school well, since my parents separated a week before I started. I was walking around trying to act like nothing was wrong, but wasn't doing a very good job of it :(. My friends were so great, and helped me alot. My birthday is in September too, and I would so love to win one of your Hebrew rings, your story touched my heart, as I too have struggled with depression. Love reading your blog, and have been following for about a year even tho I have never commented, I have been lurking....lol. Have a great birthday, and keep up creating such cool jewelry. Someday I hope to save enough to buy something, love the blue touches you put on things....Nancy
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Today I had to take my 14 year old to freshman jumpstart and 11 year old to 7th grade orientation. As I got Amelia (14) halfway to school, I asked Paige (11) where her paperwork pack that her mother had prepared for her was, the paperwork packet that contained her original birth certificate and loads of other personal information that you wouldn't necessarily want any random stranger to have. At that point I realized that I had set it on top of the car before we had left the driveway, panicking I turned around in the first accessible parking lot.
ReplyDeleteAs I drove home as quickly as I could without breaking the sound barrier, all I could think about was some vagabond finding the documents and buying a Cadillac Escalade in her name and how many years, gifts and good deeds it would take to make Paige's mother forget about the it! I turned onto our street to find all of the papers scattered on the asphalt in front of our neighbors house flapping in the breeze. We jumped out of the car and frantically ran about grabbing the papers, fortunately everything was there, but unfortunately I had to endure the ridicule of two teenage girls for the drive to Amelia's school.
Arriving at Amelia's school at 9am, Amelia commented that we were the first ones there and I smiled with the thought of how good of an impression being the first one there makes, but my smile turned into a frown upon seeing the unmanned registration desk with a list of names of the students that had already signed in. I grabbed a registration packet and found the days schedule which indicated that the jumpstart program started at 8am. Whoopsie! Amelia then had to head into the class an hour late, from the back of the room. The instructor stopped her presentation to address her at which point the whole class turned around stared at her as she hurriedly found a desk at the front of the room to sit at. Needless to say, I will later be hearing a detailed account of how she almost died of embarrassment. Paige and I then left and went to her orientation which was relatively quick and painless comparatively.
So the story wasn't about my freshman day of high school, but Amelia's and I think that she would be very deserving of this ring!
-tem
My first day of high school was different from all of my friend's. My father was the Principal of my H.S.! To me, it was the beginning of a nightmare!
ReplyDeleteI clung to the fact that my brothers and sister survived it, but was really questioning how on earth I could ever just blend in; and mortified at the thought of running into him in the halls in front of my friends! I was dreading my first day of high school because of my father.
Every teacher commented during the first attendance call (blushing until purple). Seniors quickly found out and teased me mercilessly, (more blushing).
By the end of the first week, I realized that I had let myself become consumed with fear. I had forgotten all of the lessons my father had already taught me. From then on I held my head up high, being me, and remembering I was the smart and capable young woman he always told me I was. He had been preparing me for my first day of high school my whole life.
my first day of high school i started in a brand new country, my family had just moved from the US to Tokyo, my dad was in the Air Force. I remember I had to wear a uniform with a plaid skirt, and I was very very nervous to start a new school and I think I hardly talked that day because I was so shy and so nervous, ahh! Wish I could take that day back though and open up more to those in my class. my email address is megmouch(at)gmail(dot)com
ReplyDeleteOn my first day of high school I thought, "This is the year I'm finally going to fall in love." LOL That's what I remember.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember much about my first day of high school but I do remember thinking that I was one of the cool ones (and I was soooo uncool) because I was one of the few that stayed at our private school from junior high to high school and I had 2, yes count them, 2 friends. LOL
ReplyDeleteOh I remember it so well! I always wanted to be different. When I was in high school preppy was in. I didn't want to be preppy so I wore a mini skirt that I made from some army supply khaki pants and metallic ballerina style flats (which were black shoes that I painted to look silver). I had a little blue streak in my hair. It sounds normal now, but this was 32 years ago and no one else wore anything remotely like that. I felt like a million bucks and still remember it to this day. Lisa~
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday week! Ok, so I was (still am) really short when I started high school. Our school had top/bottom lockers. I was assigned a top. I had to go around the hall begging someone to swap with me so I could see the top of the combination lock! Finally someone took pity on the poor, lowly freshman and traded. :)
ReplyDeleteMoving up to high school with good friends who have known you for years makes the transition so much easier. I can't imagine going through what some of the above girls went through. Though I don't remember specifically the first day, I do remember feeling excited and anxious. Meeting upperclassmen will do that to you. And though I don't remember disliking high school, you couldn't pay me to go back. :) 2laurengolden@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteMy high school was close enough that I could walk and I remember being relieved that I no longer had to ride the bus. I was also excited that my big brother was in the same school as me for just that one year. As it happens he didn't admit to knowing me. lol.
ReplyDeleteYour daughter is beautiful and has your hair.. that lucky girl!!
I don't remember my first day of high school, but I do remember my introduction to the high school crowd. All the incoming freshmen who were in the band went to summer school to learn how to march. I was in a practice room with the other French horn player in the band (a really cute junior boy) and his friends came along and shut the door. It was a problem because the doorknob was broken - we couldn't get out! We spent 45 minutes to an hour locked in the room together until someone was able to track down a janitor who could get us out. The whole time, the guys were making comments about us being together. There are stories about what goes on in practice rooms (let's just say that people didn't always practice music) and they were joking that we shut the door on purpose so we could be alone to "practice". It was highly embarrassing. Strangely enough, those guys became my best friends!
ReplyDeleteMy first day of high school was crazy, because my family had moved from one part of Memphis to out in the county, and I had to change schools. The school I was leaving was a small, private Christian school with four halls that made a square one side of the library, and four halls that made a square on the other side of the library. It was so easy to get around!
ReplyDeleteMy NEW school, however, was a huge public school that was literally a maze of stairways and hallways and separate buildings. And I was supposed to navigate THAT on my first day? Plus I was one of only two freshmen taking geometry, and the only one in my particular class period. I was miserable!
Somehow I made it through and now think of my high school years with fun memories. :)
Happy birthday week!
ReplyDeleteI was petrified even though I knew most of the kids... mainly I was scared because I knew I would have issues with the lock on my locker... to this day I still can't open those silly things :D - 2 turns right, 1 turn left, 400 right? huh - how does it know when you start turning?
Bren (brenjlane at yahoo.com)
I love your work. Gorgeous. And HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
ReplyDeleteI honestly think I blocked out my first few days of high school. It was too overwhelming but I do remember being terribly afraid of not having friends yet here I am a few (ahem) years later and I'm still friends with a couple of them. So lovely.
Thank you Lisa!
info at applesandorange dot com
Happy Birthday Week, and Happy Start of High School to Anneke!
ReplyDeleteBeing homeschooled, and following a more laid-back schedule that went year-round and at my pace instead of following a set curriculum, I don't remember having an official "first day" of high school. I do remember that I started my first official job that summer, and how much I learned and grew from that! And I remember being told, years later, by several people that they never thought I'd last a month at the job, because I was so quiet and timid that first day. Ha! I was there for eight years, rose to be a department manager, and only quit because I was getting married and moving out of state. Not too shabby for a "first" memory.
I remember forgetting my locker number.
ReplyDeleteI went from a small Christian school class of 6 to a public school class of 200. I just got off crutches from a severe car accident in 7th grade and high school seemed very huge indeed.
ReplyDeleteOh, and happy birthday of course!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You get birthday reign this week.
ReplyDeleteLisa, I have enjoyed reading a few of your posts, they are wonderful, I appreciate the voice you write it, I relate to it. I look forward to getting to know you better at church. Oh and I wouldn't mind winning the ring... lol
ReplyDeleteBethany Slusher
Happy Birthday!
ReplyDeleteAnneke, is a lovely girl, good luck to her as she enters high school. It will fly by!
I just dropped my youngest off at college. I'm so proud of the young woman she has become, but this empty nest thing is for the birds! Enjoy every minute you spend with your girls!
I only remember being afraid of getting lost in my high school on the first day. I still got lost when my daughters went there!
Thanks for the generous give away, I love the ring.
cw33stone at aol dot com
High school, hmmmm. All I can remember is going from being a big girl to a little girl again. Poo!
ReplyDeleteFirst day of high school brings back memories of nerves, wrapping textbooks with brown paper bags, excitement of new teachers and courses, hopes of making new friends, and the horrible orange lockers and carpets that lines the halls!
ReplyDeleteflorencekim@gmail.com
All I remember about my first day of high school was being nervous about finding my classes and getting to them on time. :)
ReplyDeleteFirst day of high school, my hair was bright orange. No joke. Lesson learned, never let your best friends big sister talk you into letting her dye your hair the night before school starts!
ReplyDeletehappy birthday to you, and best of luck to both you and your daughter in high school! my baby started h.s. last week and i have felt like i've lost my job ever since!
ReplyDeletefor me high school was a wonderful time...a small all girls high school to me meant no dumb-ing down, no pressure to look perfect and fashionable (i have always been a bit funky and a no make up kinda gal!)
what i remember most from my first day is having to take the city bus, with a transfer, for the first time ever! i was so afraid that after walking the mile to the bus stop i would be late and miss my bus. never happened but after that year i have never ridden the bus again...too stressful!!
Wow! I think it's fab you've homeschooled her this far. This isn't a first day of school story. Just a comment, I just wanted to say this. I graduated and worked 11 years, then wanted to go to college for photography. I had to retake my grade 10 Math, just so I could take Grade 11 Math to get into my program plus take physics 11. I was scared to death but I did it and got A's and B's. My point is, that IF YOU WANT to learn something you WILL! and not because someone is saying you "have too" and second in this day and age, there is so much distance education you do not actually have to attend a school. The coolest is thing is sending them to outside classes, like you've you've been doing, and I have been doing that with my girl for ballet, hip hop and drumming. So many schools actually cut arts and music. Some people say you have to send them to be "Socialized", to be honest, I think my child is way more social than many children that have been sent to school. That said I am about to send my child into the system, and I'm scared, and nervous but trying to be positive at the same time, and well it's in God's hand what will happen. Perhaps we will change our mind, but I am giving her the opportunity to decide. Anyways, way to go!! You Rock and your daughter is beautiful and so are you. take care!! :)
ReplyDeleteI found out that the first day of high school feeling NEVER GOES AWAY when I decided at age 40 that it was time to finish the college education marriage and kids put on hold twenty-something years ago. It was surreal to experience that excited/unsure of yourself feeling again. It's like labor pains...you forget exactly how it feels until it begins anew. Hope you have an AWESOME birthday.
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I love your Child of God ring and I love that you celebrate a birthday week! I do too!! My first day of highschool was one of the scariest days ever! I was a freshman cheerleader and we had been given all the warnings of never ever walking through "Jock Hall" because the Seniors would grab the little freshmen cheerleaders and duct tape them to the wall or make them do cheers for them in the middle of the hall! It was terrifying! Not to mention ... we weren't sure where Jock Hall was so we didn't know what hall to avoid!! Terrifying I tell you. We all survived ... and did the same thing to the incoming freshman. No one even followed through with it but it was the anticipation that was even worse than the threat! Anyway, happy happy birthday - think you're amazing for all you do, all you stand for, and all you accomplish in the name of Jesus! juliekittredge@gmail.com
ReplyDeletefirst day of high school for me was in 1987~ i was a tiny girl of 5'0, and all of 89lbs. I vividly remember walking into my advanced physics class, being surrounded by all these gorgeous OLDER, taller people, almost every one paired up at the tables except this one guy in the back. You could TELL he was a trouble maker by the ripped jeans and concert tshirt he had on. Me, tiny in stature, HUGE in personality (at least to me) sit down next to him, and the whole class basically goes silent and stares at me~ I smile as I turn to him and say 'hi!~ I'm Cari, do you mind if I sit here?' He smiles at me, this shy smile on his attractive face, his hair falling into his eyes and he says, 'hi Cari, I'm Joe... no one ever sits by me~ i scare them.' As I giggle at him (I'm a girl, of course I giggle) our teacher walks in and says without missing a beat, "oh look~ Joe has made a friend!" Everyone laughed and the eerie sort of tension that was in the room disintegrated. And I became Joe's first friend.
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday week Lisa :) and God bless you for being the wonderful momma you are! Your children are blessed!
maniaci411@yahoo.com
Such an unfair contest. I have blocked out 99% of high school. But ok, what I can remember is that we merged 3 jr. highs into one. Due to my big mouth and unspoken nature (thank goodness I outgrew that.....ahem), I had made some enemies at one of the jr. highs so I was TERRIFIED of those girls going into high school. I remember feeling sick to my stomach on the first day. Dang it Lisa, there is a REASON I have blocked this out :)
ReplyDeletei LOVE the ring and even more the meaning behind it! you are awesome for giving away something so powerful!!
ReplyDeletemy first day of high school was a BIG fashion show for me! i had to make sure i had my most fave outfit from head to toe...and you can bet that every single bit of it was brand spankin' new!! oh the silly little things...
jill burrows
jillreneeburrows@yahoo.com
Oh it's been so long since I went to HS, but it was a scary time, coming from a small school going to a big one it was a challenge but I survived and made alot of friends and memories!!
ReplyDeleteI went from a very small, specialized middle school to a high school where my class was bigger than a lot of smaller districts entire student body. The building was huge and I could not find some of my classes, not realizing there was a second floor.
ReplyDeleteI asked Sam the security guy for help. Sam was, and is, one of the biggest dudes I have ever seen. He grunted and pointed, I followed his hand and found the stairs....however, I never said another thing to Sam until my senior year...Hope Annekes first day was great and that all of you have a great year!
Happy birthday week!
ReplyDeleteI don't specifically remember my first day of high school. I'm sure I was nervous about finding all my classes- I don't have the best sense of direction!
Your daughter is beautiful!! I'm so excited for you in your homeschooling journey through high school! We just graduated our oldest last year - trust me, it's so worth it to homeschool through high school!! Don't doubt yourself... you can do it!! It's so rewarding. :)
ReplyDeleteI know you'd asked for comments about starting high school but I honestly can't even remember that far back! lol!
I am disqualified because I don't remember my first day of high school. However, I do want to send my well wishes to Anneke (I too can't believe she's old enough for high school!) and birthday greetings to you.
ReplyDeleteI was homeschooled as well, so my "first day" was not as eventful as others were....well, between that and my memory, I don't have a "first day memory". I'm sure it involved arguing with my brother and sister though...we weren't quite best friends yet. ;)
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p.s. both the ring and your daughter are beautiful! You'll do a wonderful job with her throughout high school, I'm sure!
hahahaaa... first day of high school. I started a new school and didn't know a soul. I went from going to a middle school with about 1000 kids to a high school with about 2000 kids... just in my graduating class. IT WAS HUGE, and I was scared. I got lost, walked up and down halls, ran up and down flights of stairs... just to find my home room... ha! Best day of high school :0)
ReplyDeleteCongrats to you and your beautiful highschooler
oliversinspiredmama@yahoo.com
Life is beautiful and the experiences are the ones that make it real. Happy Birthday and Happy First Day of a new journey. With all the great structure, love and strong convictions High School will be wonderful!!
ReplyDeleteLinda@blusolspa.com
Your daughter is so beautiful! You are doing a great job...no worries, breathe and take it all in! Happy Birthday, Superwoman! I really don't know how you do it all.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, first day of high school - I don't remember much about being in school. After school I remember thinking to myself, that wasn't so bad and taking a long nap.
Tammy(at)MadeByTammy(dot)com
I remember how terrified I was about my first day of high school!!! I was afraid I would not be able to find my locker(even though I went to a really small school) or remember my combination to it. One great thing is a re-met my soon to be high school sweetheart whom I ended up marrying and have been married to for 11 years.
ReplyDeleteAmanda
soursuc@frontier.com
I'm not really commenting to try to win...I'm commenting to tell you:
ReplyDeletea) your daughter is beautiful!
b) I love the way y'all came to your decision
c) I *think* there was an ugly fight on my first day of school (I know it was the first week and it scared me). One guy literally body slammed another onto concrete; I thought he was dead.... Interestingly, I never saw another fight in HS.
My first day of High School...Bad Perm...Awkwardly tall and lanky...Scared to death not knowing really anyone. I run to homeroom up 3 flights of stairs only to have a piece of looseleaf slip from my binder and go directly under my feet. I fell UP the stairs.I banged my chin very hard and I tried to play it cool but it was not a good scene. A hand came out of nowhere and helped me up. That was Chrissy, my best friend, and now, over 20 something years later she is still there to hold me hand and help me up when I fall. xoxox
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