Ann Marie On The Shore

A week from today, the youngest of our crew is heading to high school. I still can't believe it! But Jimmy is so ready. He would have gone to high school two years ago if St. Mary's would have graduated him a little early. A lot of this readiness comes from being the youngest of five. Jimmy has seen a lot! But it's also so much easier getting Jimmy ready to start high school because of the older kids. It wasn't this way at all when I sent our first child Grace. The whole idea of a public high school was new and kind of scary to me. All of my education, from kindergarten to graduate school, had been in Catholic schools so a big high school was whole new world. I remember when we got to book pickup, I hadn't checked the right box so we had to go back the next day to get the them. This ...