A New Beginning

 


It is really with mixed feelings that I learn that Lucas is going to be Montfort Secondary School. Of course I wished he could have made it back to Catholic High... but that is life. It is what it is.

I hope that he will finally learn the lessons of primary school and be able to do better in the future. All the best, Lucas!!

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