We are getting ready for back to school this week like so many others.  I am excited and bummed.  My son is starting a new school this year for 1st grade.  We can actually walk to school now.  I am so psyched!  I am a bit worried because he was in a mixed Kindergarten/1st grade class last year.  This year he will be in a straight 1st grade class.  I was not informed when I signed up for this new school that they offered one 1st/2nd mixed class.  I would have asked for this in a heartbeat since he is coming from a mixed class already.  I am afraid he will be reapting a lot of material this year and that makes me nervous because he is ahead in reading.  I'll just have to see how it goes I guess.  My youngest will be starting preschool soon too.  He will be going 2 hrs and 45 minutes a day.  It is going to be strange.  I have been home with him since his birth.  I am going to have a hard time letting go.  I would normally be excited about the free time this  means for me except I had to go ahead and get a puppy this summer so basically by the time  drop both kids off at school, come home and walk the puppy,  I'll maybe have an hour left.  Oh well.  It will still be nice.