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Cagle Dairy Farm
My first grandchild was in kindergarten, in 2005. I wanted to personally ensure he had a good start at the beginning of his education, away from home, and his mother [my daughter] agreed. For the next two years, I was my grandson's primary caregiver. This worked especially well for my baby, for he was in middle school at that time and had grown up without siblings in the house. There is a 10 year age difference between my baby girl and boy. I have three children, the older two were raised by my mother. I sustained an injury in the service and needed help with my eldest children after separating from my first marriage. This was a cycle from mother to daughter for my eldest two siblings were raised by my grandmother, their father submissed in a car accident, during military leave, in the early 50s. His birthday was on the 12th of November, a day before my own. I arrived to my grandson's school early, four school buses were lined up and running. My own memory of being a 1st grader in Akron, OH, getting ready for our class trip to a dairy farm surfaced. I could vividly recall how I detest the smell of the farm as we consumed our lunch. Then I remembered my baby baby boy's first class trip. He attended private school from the age of 2 to 5. Their first class trip to a petting zoo was when he was 4 years old. Entering my grandson's classroom was a treat, the children was singing the alphabets in a hype version. There were dance steps and phonetic sound-offs. Soon all the chaperone parents and grandparents arrived. My grandson's teacher assigned groups of children with adults and we proceeded to load the buses for the first class trip to Cagle Dairy Farm. The local dairy was quit impressive in contrast to the memory of my childhood experience. I did not smell that dairy farm odor, initially. There was a hey-ride tour of the farm; the tour guide named the different stocks of cows; gave details about their feature; passed several plastic bags of the grain combination they use to feed the cows [this was the stench I remembered]. I kidded with the children about the difference between hay and hey. There were pecan trees, several of the boys in my group picked up some. One of the fellas said they were acorns. I explained they were pecans, a type of nut like peanuts and walnuts. Two of the fellas had never seen pecans. I asked them if they eat peanuts; they said they did, so I cracked pecans and we ate. Boys will be boys, they had to have souvenirs and picked up more pecans; their little pockets were filled like otter cheeks. I was thinking as they scrambled to pick up a pecan before their buddy got to it first - this is like a Huckleberry Finn moment in discovering nature. The tour ended back to the reception area that had a store. Time had passed quickly so we had to scramble to get the children settled to have their lunch' load up the buses and return to school. Elementary school lets out earlier than middle and high school and several of the drivers had multiple-routes ahead of them, dropping off children at the end of the school day. Chaperoning my grandson's class trip left me with mixed emotions reminiscing my own childhood first class trip, my son's first class trip and being a part of my grandson's first class trip experience.
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