Life with a third grader

Life with a third grader

Disorganization at its highest.
Spelling left at school,
rulers not found,
pencils lost,
no clue where anything is,
unless its a toy or a personal reading book.

And god forbid if someone moves something
from the place that it was supposed to be -
but usually no one else moved it.
Its not the cleaning lady's fault,
it's not mamma's fault -
most inevitably it is the third grader.

The only bastion of sanity
is the second grader
who knows where everything is.
But sadly the second grader becomes
a third grader next year.

Next year's hope is that
as a fourth grader the now
third grader will
move forward to the next stage
of organizational ability.


But I still love them!