{"id":359,"date":"2010-08-29T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=359"},"modified":"2010-08-29T21:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-29T21:13:00","slug":"the-return-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"The Return To School"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-family:georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;\" >This  was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the  spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight,<br \/>like a spy, through the  ripening country-side,<br \/> and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop  with August heat,<br \/>puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and  flower and human shoulders.  <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-family:georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif;\" >~Sarah Orne Jewett<\/p>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/THrN0Yrk2JI\/AAAAAAAAI9s\/g67S_ozNzhk\/s1600\/DSC04573.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/THrN0Yrk2JI\/AAAAAAAAI9s\/g67S_ozNzhk\/s320\/DSC04573.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5510943393903335570\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Every joyful summer must come to an end.<\/p>\n<p>Every child must return to school.<\/p>\n<p>I complain about all the supplies that need to be collected for each new school year but truly I am grateful for the distraction.  I have been bustling around all weekend trying to ignore the conflict in my heart and mind.  I don&#8217;t think I am afraid to send them as I daily was when they first started this grand adventure of education out side of the home, BUT, I still feel emotional this time of year.<\/p>\n<p>I feel thankful for the schedules return.  Yet I want to complain about the pending doom of winters dark cold mornings at the bus stop.  I feel thankful for alone time with my youngest too, it is so much simpler and quieter and the house remains clean longer, but I also feel so heartsick with loneliness for my older two.  I feel excited for them, thankful that they are pumped about being with friends again and yet&#8230; I want them to be with me, they are mine (or so my mama heart screams)!<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well I think that could just be a complete list of my battling emotions&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I feel better already&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Back to sharpening mounds of pencils and labeling each and every one along with every pencil crayon, crayon and marker&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>TTFN<br \/><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight,like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat,puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders. ~Sarah Orne Jewett [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8,5,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}