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I just dropped Nevan off at school for his first day in 1st grade. The school is pretty close to our house, it takes about 2 minutes to drive there, if that… Our day started at 6:30 this morning, everyone in the shower and getting ready. We’d made the lunches last night, found all Nevan’s school supplies, his backpack, lunchbox, good to go. With Jenifer away in Las Vegas on a business trip it was up to the boys to get Nevan’s year kicked off right. And get Liam off to where he needed to be…

Before Jenifer left she had organized baby sitting for him, which means I didn’t have to bring Liam to work with me. While I love having him here, the thought of having to frequently find something for him to do didn’t appeal to me. We got out the door at 7:10 am and drove the 15 minute drive to his babysitter. Dropped him off with his toys and colouring books, hug and a kiss and off to school. Arrived at the school around 7:40 to find the parking lot jam packed. Parents and kids everywhere. A police car watching proceedings from just outside the gates, making sure no one was speeding and no stray kids.

We’re fortunate that Nevan’s 1st Grade Teacher is our next-door neighbour Chip. He’s a great guy about my age, moved to the area recently with his wife for the teaching job. He’s going to take my fishtank and snake terrarium, the tank will go in his home so he can take the little one he has into his classroom. And the terrarium with two smooth green snakes will go in the classroom as well. Lucky kids!

Now, I know Chip and talk to him a bit however, I have never known his last name. Getting to the school I looked at all the classroom doors to see the names. Honestly I was looking for any “Mr” and start from there. “Mrs, Mrs, Mrs, Ms, Mrs” I was getting nowhere fast. We went outside and saw kids running and playing absolutely everywhere. We bumped into a few people we know, Nevan and their child saying their hello’s. There were names on the doors to the outside as well, but all I could see were more Mrs.

At some point Nevan said to me, “Why don’t you just ask someone dad?” Good advice, coming from my six year old. I decided to head indoors and see if I could find the office and ask which room Nevan was going to be in. But then we saw him, our neighbour Chip, who greeted me with some fascinating news. Fascinating only because it came from an American…

He mentioned that he had been thinking of me this morning because there was a big news item regarding the recent England v Pakistan ball tampering, game cancelling farce. I would read about it in detail when I got to the office (and you can too) but for the time being I was not in the know. I knew there had been ball tampering accusations against Pakistan (again) but I did not know the game ended in dark circumstances with the game being called off and awarded to England. The first time in Test Cricket history that a match had been decided by the officials. Will certainly go down as a dark day in cricket. Having read up I put full blame on Pakistan, but I’ll let you draw your own conclusions if you know cricket. It turns out Chip listens to BBC, I joked that I could see why it was such a big story being a british station. He said it was the main story.

Too funny. Chip got his students lined up and we all found his classroom. I was going along so I could see where it was. On his door was a small white name tag, the kind that you print from those little label printers. No wonder we didn’t spot it! And his classroom door didn’t peer into the actual classroom, it took an L shape around a corner. We had passed it by earlier, but at the time it probably didn’t look like a classroom. The classrooms on the left of the hall were easy to peek into. This one, on the right, wasn’t. It doesn’t matter. All’s well that ends well and Nevan was engaged in the group sitting on the floor when I left.

Did I mention that it meant I started work at 8:30am and have to finish at 2:30pm? Yes… we’re all winners today

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5. We are moving to Australia!

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