Beta Mum's Blog Beta Mum on 09 Jan 2008 04:24 pm
Butterflies
Well, they’ve had their first day at their new school.
This morning could have gone badly awry. It involved: -
- shirts with buttons
- ties - which in Ben’s case was not on a bit of elastic
- itchy jumpers
- plastic bags instead of PE bags.
But they got dressed without a word of protest, and disappeared into their classrooms with no more than a hint of panic flitting across their eyes.
And now I hear from Mike that Hannah said of her day -
“I had butterflies at first, but then the butterflies started smiling.”

on 11 Jan 2008 at 3:11 pm 1.Expatmum said …
OMG (as me teenager says) that is so sweet. Almost like my son’s comments about school a few years ago: “School’s not so bad now. It’s like a happy prison”. Brought tears to my eyes it did!
on 11 Jan 2008 at 4:31 pm 2.Iota said …
That’s poetry.
on 11 Jan 2008 at 8:39 pm 3.Mutterings & Meanderings said …
How lovely, I wish my butterflies would smile!
on 13 Jan 2008 at 6:48 pm 4.Rilly Super said …
it’s been a while since I had butterflies in my stomach, although there are moths that have a fairly quiet live not to far away, sigh
happy new year kathy
on 14 Jan 2008 at 3:33 pm 5.georgie said …
that’s magic!
on 20 Jan 2008 at 8:46 am 6.Mya said …
That’s lovely - I think I might have cried hearing that!
Hope things are still going well.
Mya x