Erica’s Blog

Well, we heard from a couple more families.  Devin & Cristian are both going to be in Mrs. L’s class.  Bummer!  It seems like all my favorite kids & moms are in other classes this year!

Things are shaping up for the first day of school.  The PTA always provides lunch for the teachers and coffee and snacks for a reception for the new kindergarten parents.  As Hospitality Chair, I get to make all the phone calls and send all the emails to make these food-related things happen.  I don’t have to do it all myself, I just have to make sure it happens.  Of course, my instinct is to take the easy way out and do it all myself, but I’m making sure I don’t.  I’m sure we’ll end up with extra food.  The only problem is that I’ve caught Thing Two’s bug, so I don’t know if I’ll even be well enough to hang around on the first day of school!  Oh, well. 

I just can’t believe this kid is already in second grade!  I hope she has as good a time this year as I did in second grade.  For second and third grade, I had one of the best teachers of my life, Mrs. King.  I remember her so well.  Even then, she was old (I’m not just saying that from a kid’s perspective; this is from looking at pictures).  She was a typical strict but loving Baptist lady from Texas.  She wore a lot of polyester but hey, we all did in the ’70’s.  It was a private school in Irving, Texas, so she could get away with stuff you could never do in a non-parochial school now — requiring us each to have a Bible in our desks, and having us take turns leading a morning devotional every day, etc.  I got to have her two years in a row b/c the year I was in third grade, she taught a split class of second & third grades.  She was such a great teacher.  She’s the one who taught me about fractions and diagramming sentences.  Of course, she was also a Texas bigot (horrified to see the brochure from the school in CA I’d attend in 4th grade b/c there were black people in the pictures, and kids wore jeans to school), but hey, we all have our sins.  I doubt she’s even still alive now, over 30 years later.  Anyway, I hope Mrs. R. has as big and positive an impact on Thing One as Mrs. King had on me.