First Day of School.

First Day of School.

Things were on schedule the first day to get out the door on time. Then I remembered to take a picture.

Isn’t that covered in the How To Be a Parent With No Regrets Handbook?

Always photograph your child on the first day of school.

Here are the two little ones before we hopped in the car.

Joe picked this location and wanted to be hugging the little tree.  (A little fir that miraculously escaped death this summer from the heat after looking as if he had been singed by some ferocious forest fire.)

Two things are evident in this picture. They genuinely seem happy about school starting and they dressed themselves. Don’t they devote an entire chapter on that in the How To Be a Parent With No Regrets Handbook?

Notice the beach chairs. I have yet to put them in the garage after returning from the beach this weekend. Laziness? Could be…but more likely a silent statement that even though school might be in session on the calendar, I refuse to give in on summer yet. I’ll show them. (Who, I’m not exactly sure. Not like I can stop the earth from tilting on it’s axis away from the sun — but I can still protest.)

Then here is our 16 year old leaving yesterday morning.

He has that racing-away-from-the-paparazzi look.

I clearly told him to wait for me to get my camera. At that point, he started to run.

So there you have it…Snap away while you can.

Another school year has begun.

Next year I’ll try the sports action mode on my camera.

I show him.