Back to school

 

The kids are well and truly back in a school routine.  Miss Milly has taken to school life like she takes to everthing - determined and focused.  I've had to laugh each afternoon when I wait under the school's infants shade shelter for her teacher to bring the class out at home time.  Everyday she is first in line.  Everyday.  When I visited her classroom to see where she sits.  She is at the very front table.  She loves doing her homework and wants to be the best at everything.  I love her ambition but would also love if she could be a little more gracious about it.  She is already telling Henry that she can read better than him, that she has more best friends than him, whatever she can to be better than him.  If only she realised Henry couldn't care less.

 

But it was during last week that we also had a proud parent moment.  We had finished dinner where we each take turns talking about our days.  Henry had said nothing much had happened at school for him that day, except he had enjoyed playing handball.  It was when he was getting out of the bath that night that he asked me "what's a role model?".  We talked about people we looked up to and people who set good examples for others.  I then asked him why he asked the question.  Turns out his teacher and told him he was a good role model but didn't know what it meant.  We were so pleased for Henry and hope somewhere inside him it boosted his confidence. 

So by the end of last week Henry he was awarded a Merit Card for good manners and good behaviours, and Milly received her first ever Merit Card for good work.

As for Buster Boo, he is having a ball at preschool and now proudly displays his artworks on his bedroom wall.

And then it was Saturday.  After a full week of not seeing much of each other, the three little Hobsons played happily together creating Lego worlds all around the house.  We didn't hear a peep out of them for four hours.  No tantrums from Milly, no "can I play wii now" from Henry, and Boo Boy wasn't excluded. 

It was wonderful.  It was peaceful.  If only it could stay this way forever.