Derek's First Day of School

I've been looking forward to this day, which is a totally opposite emotion from this post. The boys are getting bored at home and I think school will help. (I still could have used a couple more weeks though.) Derek's birthday is a week from the deadline (Sept. 1) to enter Kindergarten. I put him in when he was 4 and I've always felt like I should have put Derek into school a year later. So with the new school and new neighborhood, we put much thought and prayer into it and decided to put him into First Grade again this year. I think he'll enjoy being the oldest in his class instead of the youngest. He seemed happy to go to school on his first day, and came home happy with reports of new friends already. He told me that his teacher "is young and nice, so young teachers must be nicer than older ones". (His last one was older and a little short-tempered.) He also told me that his teacher is as nice as I am. Ahhh... But there is already trouble and it is very serious. Listen to this..."There are kids blocking the tunnel slide!! And it gets very hot in there!" I'll take this kind trouble versus the teenager kind any day. :)