First Day of Kindergarten

Before we took Grace home from the hospital Jeremy was worried about how to pay for her wedding. I however was much more worried about how I would survive the day I would have to send her to kindergarten. I was of course sad (maybe teetering on heartbroken at times....)to have my precious baby girl away form me for so many hours in the day. I also knew it would totally change our lifestyle in many ways. So we have spent the whole past year packing in lot of traveling, play dates, and trips to grandma's house. Knowing these would have to be squeezed into weekends from now on.

With a month of summer school and a visit to see Grace's classroom to drop off her school supplies and meet Mrs. Prichett under our belt we felt like were were as prepared as we could be. Thursday August 18th finally arrived. Grace's first day of kindergarten.........and the good news is we both survived. Without even any tears!!!! (Well sort of I did cry earlier in the week during my prayer time with the Lord, but I thought that was a great place to cry.)

First Day of Kindergarten!

Looking SO grown up.
Daddy went into work late so he could get in on the big morning. He also made breakfast so our day had a great start.
We are once again walking to school which I love. It makes it easy for me to walk Grace into the building. The kids all go to the auditorium first so there aren't any pics of her classroom or teacher. I was so glad we had practiced this at summer school it made it lots easier.
Faith of course wanted to check out the construction sight which is looking a lot more like a school building every day.

Grace,

Your daddy and I wrestled with the decision to send you to public school. It was a decision that became more and more difficult as the day grew closer. I just love you so and would have loved to have you home with me all day. I miss you while you are at school and sometimes its so hard not being able to fully get "all the details" of what happened during your day. But, I know you will do great. You already love learning, making new friends, and your teacher. (You want to take her a thank you gift like every other day) I know you probably won't always feel this way about school, but I'm praying we have many years like that. And I wanted you to know that I already see the way you are shining the light of Jesus there and that makes me such a proud mama. Even though this has been hard for me you are beginning to flourish and that makes me smile.

Love you my favorite 5 year old AND kindergartner!

Mama