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Middle children, consider this a tribute to your childhood.
This time last year I was gearing up for Orangutan to join O.A.T. (Orangutan Academic Training for those who forgot) and I was all sentimental about my baby growing up. I got teary several times before the first day of O.A.T. even got here. I went out and rounded up school supplies well in advance, made lists of things that needed to be done, assembled multiple outfits for her to choose from for her first day and even walked her through the routine several times.
It's that time again. In two weeks not only will we be back in O.A.T. but this time we have R.A.T. (Rhino Academic Training) too! And how am I handling this? I'm counting down the days, minutes and seconds. I haven't even tried to do any supply shopping yet. The tears of sentiment have been replaced with nervous giggles of glee and his clothes have been laid out for two weeks with no options or room for deviation.
If they are lucky I might hit the brakes and slow down in the carpool lane before I scream "TUCK AND ROLL!" and shove them out the van door wise guy style. Maybe the new principal can catch their backpacks.
But let's get back to Rhino. If I was a good mother I would be just as sentimental about his first day of school as I was for O's. And you know I'll be all teary and weepy for Marmie's first day because she really IS the baby. When she goes to school I go back to work though so the tears could be multipurpose. But poor Rhino.
He's the middle guy. He can't beat anyone up or retaliate if something happens to him because the other two are girls. He isn't the biggest one in the family so he doesn't get all the cool new firsts. He isn't the little one so he still doesn't get away with murder like she does. And in all honesty he probably gets blamed for a lot of things that he had nothing to do with.
So this is me pledging to try harder in the next two weeks to keep the giggles to a minimum and muster up some sentiment for my boy. After all he is my ONLY boy and it IS his first day of school too.
Maybe I'll get him some knee and elbow pads to break his toss from the van.
2 comments:
Awesome!
Being a middle child myself, I have a soft spot for all green kangaroos. Izzy has been the victim more than once of the neglect, even as hard as I try.
Rhino will be alright... I mean, I turned out just fine =D ROFLMAO
I don't know what to say, I was sentimental with both my noise makers starting school. WE are counting down to only 4 more years of school left for them to be in school so these next few years are somewhat sentimental for us.
I was the oldest of three kids, So I can so feel O's pains. AS for Rhino, if you make it seem like fun, he will have fun, if he thinks of it as a chore he will hate school. So make jokes, have him feel good about this new adventure. As someone wise once said Fake it til you make it.
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