school days

I haven't been a school girl for a great many years, but every year, at this time of year, I feel myself getting excited, and there's a sense of things starting.  Even at work, although the projects I work on go on year round, they seem to get more intense this time of year.  This year, I'll have two grandchildren staying with me during the first two weeks of school so I will be enjoying the event in a much more real way than in recent years.  And I'm excited by the prospect.  Makes me want to break into song "School days, school days, good old golden rule days.  Reading and writing and 'rithmatic, taught to the tune of a hickory stick."  Ouch, that last bit doesn't sound like much fun at all.