52. First Day Run-In's

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August 27th, 2013

Today is the first day at Chilton Academy (In my story they are in the same building but separated by Elementary grade K-8 and High school 9-12), so the two age groups never mix in the halls, and Penny, Austin, Emi, Eli and Adie were excited to meet new people. Penelope was put into grade 3 across the hall from the grade 1 classroom. Emi, Eli and Austin were all put into the same grade 1 class, and Adie was put into her kindergarten class that was next to the grade 1 class. All five kids were happy to have their classrooms so close to each other.

At the end of the day when Finn and Rory picked Eli, Emi and Adie they wanted to introduce them to their new friends, they noticed that there were only two other parents picking up their kindergarten and grade 1 children the rest were nannies or the family drivers.

"Mitchum did you notice there are only maybe 5 parents in total picking up their kids. The rest are drivers and nannies" Rory says

"Unfortunately in Hartford that is very common. I hate to say it, but when Logan and Honor were kids, their nanny picked them up and dropped them off until they were 12. Then it was them meeting the driver in the pickup area until they could drive or in logans case until he was in boarding school at 13" Mitchum said with a little snicker

"I feel bad for some of these kid's," Rory says

"I do too sometimes. Some of them have both parents that work so really it's like it would be for a middle class or lower class family they just happen to have a nanny. It's the kids that have a mother that's to busy planning parties and being on a lot of committees and would rather have the nanny raise the kids then bother to spend time with them. Yes, betty pans parties and is on committees, but she also would rather spend time with the kids and makes sure no matter how busy we are that we have quality time with the kids. I hoped that your generation changed that, but I don't see much of it so far but maybe its just mainly the young kids or some of the other kids meet their parents at the pickup area." Mitchum says

"I hope it's one of those 2 and not just parents who think of their children as a necessity to hand down the family fortunes....." Rory says

"Maybe we can be the leaders in changing our generation or the next generation, Love," Finn says

"I hope so," Rory says

"Mommy, Finn our teachers want to meet you" Eli, Emi and Adie run up to Finn and Rory and say

"Oh, did anything happen today?" Rory asks

"No, they just told us a minute ago they wanted to meet and talk to our mom and dad," Eli says

"Daddy, she wants to meet you and mommy too," Austin says

"Same with my teacher," Penny says

"Oh, goodie.... I hope it's not the name thing again" Mitchum says

"Do you think it could be that?" Rory asks

"Yes, or it could very well be that there are 5 kids so close in age with the last name, and 3 of them are born within 2 months of each other, but only 2 are brother and sister. Last year, when they were in preschool one of the assistants, accused me of having an affair thinking that all 3 were my children. It happened to be the day after Logan picked the three of them up and Austin told the assistant that Logan was her brother, so she assumed all 3 kids were his siblings" Mitchum says

"Oh, is that why Anne suddenly was gone?" Rory asks

"Yes, that's the one. When I mentioned it to the school's headmaster, she fired Anne for insinuating that and for even talking about something like that even if it were true, it's not proper to say" Mitchum says

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