Next Tuesday, the Brunson household starts a brand-new adventure. At 9:00 am, my oldest daughter starts kindergarten. Though I’m not sure I’m ready to have such a grown-up daughter, she didn’t ask my permission to get this old. And she’s excited. And she’s completely and totally ready for it.<\/p>\n
Growing up, my dad gave me and each of my siblings a father’s blessing the night before school started. I’m pretty sure he kept doing it through my first year of law school. (I got married between my first and second years, and at that point, didn’t go back to San Diego over the summer.) That blessing, as much as the actual first day of class, became a mark of my academic year, signaling and sacralizing the new year.<\/p>\n
It’s a tradition that has stuck with me, and one I’d like to start in a week. But I’m also curious: what did you do growing up, and\/or what do you do now, to mark your or your children’s entry into a new school year?<\/p>\n
(Bonus question:[fn] what do you send your kids for lunch? I just found out that my daughter’s school is not a peanut-free school, which gives me some help, but I don’t plan on sending PBJ every day. She’s a pretty adventurous eater, though I’ll probably stick to sushi at a sushi place, rather than letting it sit several hours, but I’ve never had to pack a school lunch before.) <\/p>\n
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[fn] By “bonus question,” I mean bonus for me, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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