Another school year begins

Today, Ben started another school year. From Grade 4, he is now in Grade 6...but before you think I've got a genius (well, he's pretty smart ;)), the reason why he seemed to have skipped a grade is because his school relabeled its grade levels to match up with the new K-12 educational system our government has begun implementing. As it is, everyone in his school skipped a level. No Grade 5 for him, and to top it off, he's graduating at the end of the year.

And with the new school year, I continue the tradition of taking a picture of him on Day 1. Here are a couple:

Certainly a far cry from when he began going to school back in 2005. As I'm fond of saying, time sure flies.

Lately, he's been visiting this blog and asking me why I haven't been very active (ok, not active at all) in updating it, and I wondered too. It's not that I've not had the time. I don't know either. In my last post, I said I'll try to be more active with this blog, but obviously, I didn't do that. There certainly were a lot of things I could've written about, not to mention our trips this past summer which dug way too deep in my pockets, but was worth every centavo.

Well, again, I resolve to try and do better this year. I wish I was creative enough to think up of a cool way to document this year, his last as a grade schooler. Maybe a picture each day. With digital, pictures don't cost a thing anymore. Yeah, maybe I'll do that and then I'll be forced to sit down and write even just a little bit about each day. We'll see...