School Time

Last night was walk-through night at the kids’ schools.  Well, not for Jack, so it is nice that he has been going to Scout meetings at his new school for over a year now, so it is not brand new to him anyway.

I took Sam and Caroline to their building and we found the office, the gym, bathrooms—the important places.  We walked into their classrooms and found their desks.

Unlike Caroline, Sam wasn’t overall too excited about being there, but was ok.  As we were leaving, walking across the parking lot, I noticed him looking so sad.  Uh-oh, I was thinking, this idea of going to kindergarten might not be sitting well.

I asked Sam, what is wrong?  He answered, so dejectedly but so succinctly:

There weren’t any stairs.

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Now, in contrast to Sam and Caroline’s new building (we’ll call it a two-year-old sprawling ranch), Grant’s school was built two centuries ago in 1886, the oldest school standing in Madison County (we’ll call it a 124-year-old four story brick with unending flights of stairs). Grant’s class is on the top level.  I doubt if he is excited about the stairs.

Gary took Grant for his walk-through. The interesting thing about Grant’s gym is that apparently even the interior walls are brick.  Exposed brick just like the exterior is made from. Yeah, my thoughts went immediately to:

How many days until Grant’s glasses and/or head meets up with that??

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I will say I have been a little concerned with Grant’s transitioning to a new building—him  missing his old school and just with all this general upheaval of life with new house, new people, new surroundings…but then I knew it was gonna be ok when he came home from the walk-through to tell me:

My school has a

Lego Club!!!

I think everything’s going to be all right.