Sending Brodie bak to school this year, I had so many things going through my mind. Get these supplies, order this uniform, buy a good back pack (let’s be honest, I spend good money on these because I need them to last all year) and so on and so on. Most importantly, getting him pumped up for school!

Growing up I LOVED school! I remember the start of my first grade year and I loved making sure I matched head to toe, hair was in place, shoes were perfect, perfect smiles, everything. As a little girl, I know I had more priorities of how I looked then my son does. Don’t let that fool you though! Little Brodie LOVES his hair and it’s gotta be JUST RIGHT! We get hair cuts about every 2-3 weeks and it never fails when he wants it cut it’s on a day or time that no one is open and he wants it done right then.

Him going back to school got me thinking about my younger days. Next fall will be my 10 year reunion. 10 whole years. I’ll never forget starting graduation with my welcome speech and realizing this is it! I’m done, we’re done! But looking I have so many memories! Some good, some not the greatest, but none the less they help mold me as a person. Even a few hair appointments ago my hair girl and I were talking (we graduated together) and talking about our reunion and how both of us were more than happy to head things up and get everything scheduled. In our conversation, both of said how come we weren’t friends in high school and kind of laughed about it. Because in all honesty we weren’t friends! Neither of us know why, but in a sense it’s funny because now in our careers we are both helping each other. AND Let’s be honest I WILL NOT trust another person with my hair anymore. She truly saved my hair from a BAD situation and now it’s incredible. But seriously, at Rosepine we all got along for the most part! In our talk the other day we were bringing up old memories that we’d forgotten about and it made me realize how great we all really had it in school. Whether we were “best friends” or just social acquaintances, we had a good class of kids many of which are all still friends. We all wanted to grow up so fast and get out of there, but I bet many of us would want to go back even for 5 minutes. Of course I’m one that would only want to go back for a minute. I enjoy life now and I think my high school years were a good stepping stone. Kids nowadays (and I feel SUPER old saying that), want to grow up so fast! I will say when I moved out of home and experienced my first taste of “adulthood” my first thought was what the heck was I thinking, send me back, I quit, I’ll do high school again any day of the week. I have so many great memories of high school and with Brodie starting school back it makes me think of all those great times and even though it’s almost been 10 years ago, it feels like yesterday.

I even remember how I worried SO much what people thought about me. Did I look skinny enough, was I pretty enough, was I in enough clubs, did enough people like me and so on. BUT in a sense, all that was silly stuff. It didn’t matter if I wasn’t crowned Homecoming Queen, it didn’t matter if I didn’t have straight A’s (let’s be honest, English kicked my butt), no one cares now if you were the president of the Beta Club. All that stuff was just extra stuff, but what’s important is that you made memories and learned from things that you did.

When you look back on your high school years, would you do it again? Would you want to go back? Are you the same person now as you were then? Do you still see or talk to your old friends? Are you looking forward to your class reunion?