Back-to-School in Berlin
Over-thinking school supplies and other things
I read a blog post from another mom last week that said, ‘The new year really starts when school starts.’
I could not agree more.
I wish I could remember who said it. (If this was you, drop me a line and I will edit this post to give you credit!)
August or September, whenever my kids have gone back to school, is when I make my resolutions to be different—-and better—in the next year: Read more, meet all my deadlines, keep a cleaner house, bake all the things, be more organized.
It’s a legacy from my own childhood when each new year brought a fresh start: a new school binder, blank schedule, packs of unopened blank notebook paper.
By January, when the calendar actually changes, we will already know how much of the hopes (and how much of the fears) that we started the year with, have come to pass.
This year, I only have one kid left in school. One child to get set up wi…
