Grace's First Day of School

Well, we all knew that the day would come. I thought about it all last week- how excited I was for her to try new things, but at the same time how scared I was of losing her- of no longer controlling her environment- and of how much I'd miss her. Luckily, she only has half day kindergarten, so it's a better transition for her, since she didn't have preschool.

She was excited all morning. She admired the outfit that she picked out and we decided together how to do her hair. I let her pick out what we'd have for lunch (chicken nuggets) and then we brushed teeth and grabbed shoes, and walked out the door. The walk to school is about 15 minutes (with 3 kids- I imagine Kaylon and I could do it in less). An added bonus is an hour of walking for me every day!

Here are some pictures we took along the way.

Modeling her purple Tinker Bell backpack

Literally running to school she was so excited!

That's the school sign in the back of the picture

Turns out that the folders that they gave us at orientation with all the information for school were misprinted. They say that pm kindergarten starts at 12:40, when in fact it starts at 12:30. So technically Grace was late for her 1st day of school (but just 5 minutes). A nice lady in the office escorted us to her classroom where we barely got hugs and kisses before she ran to find a seat at a table and grabbed a book to start reading. We lingered a second to watch her but she never even looked up at us. We walked away holding hands watching our 2 other princesses. I had a few tears in my eyes, but I didn't cry.

The bonuses to this new situation don't escape me. As soon as we got home, Liliana and Moira went right down for their naps. I cleaned the basement, started a load of laundry, ran an errand (since Kaylon was home) and updated my blog. Not bad for an afternoon. But I'm so excited to go pick her up in an hour (she gets out at 3:55) and see how her day went!