Finally Here! Can We Wait?



Lulu's Self-Portrait



Today was the day.  I spent the past month reading, researching and talking to other parents about preparing.  We spent the entire summer casually introducing the concept of a new school.  We shopped, we organized, we ironed and we said a special prayer—and finally the big day arrived this morning.  And I lost it!  Yup, I cried like a baby as soon as Lulu walked out the door lined up with her new fellow classmates.  I wish I was as brave as her, but seeing her little face just brought me to tears.  



 

“What if I get a bloody nose, will they know what to do?”  “Yes” I answer. “The teacher will help you and they have a nurse.”

Always the practical one, or just testing me to see IF they really do have a nurse, “What’s her name?” 

 “I don’t know, but I saw her once.  She seems really nice and she was helping someone with a bleeding ear, so she knows all about that stuff.” 



 “When will we go on a field trip?”  "Will we have art today?" “Is my PE teacher a boy or a girl?”  “Can I just go to my old school?”  Ahhhh, the root of the first day jitters!    

The thing is, at my advanced age---I feel the same way too!  I am nervous about meeting the new moms and making new friends.  Of course I can’t admit that. . .can I?  That even when you get older, things can be a bit intimidating, but that is okay!  Life is an adventure—whether it is your first day of kindergarten, or the first day dropping your first child off FOR kindergarten!  I pray my daughter has an adventurer’s spirit her entire life and for all the children who begin a new adventure this year (and for their parents and teachers!!). 

Now, when can I pick her up?