Another School Year

Our last child has entered high school. That means the last Bartlett is moving thru the Abilene Independent School District. At one time, all five of our children were in AISD at about the same time. And our cars knew how to get to the elementary school all on their own, going the same way for more than 20 years.
Now, all three daughters have graduated from college, two are married, one of them has a baby, the other two have jobs, one son is in college, the other in high school. As I have mentioned here before, I would love to have them all still at home. But they aren't....spread across west and north Texas. The house has gradually gotten quieter, one departure at a time. But when any of them is around, and/or our grandson, it seems like the good old days.
We all are cranking things back into a schedule which most of us fall out of during the summer. Here's to early alarms, lunches, school buses, teachers and homework. Some things never change.