It's a Little Bit Funny... This Feeling Inside

Am I weird? Am I the only one who feels this way? I walk Zachary to school every day and wait with him until the teachers come to pick the kids up. When I watch him go through those big double doors, I feel just a twinge of sadness. Or maybe it's melancholy. Whatever it is, it only lasts for a minute. It's kinda hard to turn and walk away, but by the time I reach the crosswalk, I'm fine again. Is that strange? Am I just a big baby? Or is it normal to want to hold on to your baby a little bit longer? *sigh* Maybe I just need to take the advise of Tristan's football coach and suck it up. *double sigh*

A Day of Firsts

Tristan and Samantha were all smiles as they prepared to go to their first day at a new school in a new town. Yesterday was back to school night where the kids had a chance to meet their teachers and find their classrooms. All the kids liked their teachers, which is a good thing. One of the reasons they are so happy looking in this picture is because they get to walk to school... all by themselves! It's been a couple years since we lived in a place where I felt comfortable letting them go alone.




Samantha was so nervous the night before. Her stomach was upset and she couldn't sleep.

Tristan is too cool to be nervous, but I was still yelling for him to go to sleep at 10 pm!















Zachary had such a hard time. He was so amped about going to school. He has been asking when school was going to start for the past 2 weeks. When he found out about back to school night, that was all I heard about for days.

He was part of the reason Tristan didn't go to sleep earlier. Zach just wouldn't shut up!

Today was rough because he is in afternoon Kindergarten. The older kids got to leave first thing in the morning and Zachary had to stay behind. He was soooo excited, he got dressed 3 times this morning.

I am not exaggerating when I say that he asked if it was time to go to school yet every 20-30 minutes for the next 3 hours. When it was finally time to go, I fairly had to run to keep up with him on the way to school.

I snapped this picture as a surprise as his little class was getting led into the building.

It was a bittersweet day for me. My baby is going to school! Last night, it hit me and I cried. A lot. Ty actually got mad and told me to get a grip. (That might have something to do with the fact that it was after 11 and he has to get up at a quarter to 5 in the morning to catch the bus for work!) I finally had to go out and cuddle my sleeping baby for a few minutes so I could sleep. I wasn't the only mom shedding a tear or two outside the doors to the school!

As a side note... I had another weird moment this afternoon. Do you have any idea how strange it is to have your kids going to the same elementary school you went to? It's a little Twilight Zone for me.