Well, school started today. It seems to come around so fast. Time is flying by. I said a prayer this morning for all my grandkids in school now that they would be protected from any harm or evil and that they would be good examples to their peers. And that they would especially befriend and defend anyone who was being picked on and not treated right. It has been a long time since our youngest, Rita, finished school. I can still remember my own schooldays which I never liked very much. My first grade teacher was Mrs. Opal Tillery and I loved her. She went to church with us so I knew her outside of school also. The big yellow school bus came down to the end of the road in Kelsey where we lived to pick us up each morning. It would turn around in our front yard and go back up the road stopping here and there to get our neighbors and other kids. We knew everybody who lived in Kelsey. We went to school in Gilmer which was about seven or eight miles away. When we were old enough my brothers milked cows before school and my two sisters and I hung clothes out on the line before school. So we were up early. Every day when we got home from school, Mom had fresh rolls right out of the oven. The best smell in the world is the warm yeast smell of baking rolls. Mom cooked a big supper each day and always has dessert too. We would have a snack, do chores, eat a big supper, and then do homework before bath and bed. Supper was our night time meal, not dinner as we call it now. Back then dinner was at noon time. Mom cooked a big breakfast too. She always had oatmeal and gravy and biscuits. Sometimes eggs but not always. We ate a lot of food and it's a wonder we weren't fat. But we worked hard and burned those calories off.
Each year before school started, we got to order new clothes and shoes out of the Sears catalog. That was when I was little and I don't remember when we stopped doing that and started buying them in town. But we didn't get to buy a whole lot like kids do now. With ten kids that was impossible. I was so glad to finally graduate from high school. My grades were good all through school but that is not true of my two years in college. But that is another story for another day.
