The important thing now is that CHARLOTTE STARTED KINDERGARTEN TODAY!
Here's what I wrote on Praiseworthy yesterday, and it pretty much sums up how I feel about it:
I don't prefer happy endings. Don't get me wrong, I think they're great. I just prefer an ending that leaves me wondering what's coming up next. Because one thing I've learned from life so far is that nothing really ever ends.
Maybe that's part of what made today a really great day. You see, it's the very last day of my life as a mother without kids in school. My oldest starts kindergarten tomorrow. And like good mothers everywhere, I'm excited and nervous and sad and proud. I both can and can't believe how fast the time has passed, just like everyone said it would. I feel like everything I've ever learned from or taught her in the last five years culminates here; that we will be leaving some important part of ourselves in today when it ends. And it's a bittersweet feeling - the kind of feeling I love the best. Because it leaves me dying to find out what's coming up next.
As for how Miss Charlotte feels about it? I think the photos do the best talking:
After school we went out to a special celebratory lunch with one of her oldest and best friends, Payton (and his mama and sister), who also started Kindergarten today.
Complete with chocolate-y ice cream, which is what's on her face. That's my girl!
She decided that the bush made a really great back-scratcher. Silly-awesome!
Oh my goodness, how they grow!
3 comments:
Congrats! She looks adorable in her first-day outfit! So it sounds like you guys have half-day Kindergarten? What a nice way to ease into it. It's full-day here (9:15-3:15) and quite the trauma for all involved. I wish we'd had half-day!
I second Cailean, wish we had half-day too! They actually have full-day preschool at our public school! You are right to feel like this is a HUGE milestone for your family and for you especially- I didn't quite realize it at the time, but now I know how life changes when school becomes part of the picture. But I love your approach to it and will be trying to be more like you in the coming weeks as we settle in to a new city. I"m more prone to looking back, which is not so good!
I can't believe anyone has full day kindergarten, first of all. That sounds crazy to me. I am having a hard time with Kaeleb being gone for 8 hours (including travel time) a day in 1st grade. He's only 6 for Pete's sake! (Whoever Pete is.) But I am so glad Charlotte is happy to be starting school and sure she is going to love it! She is so beautiful!
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