2007. This seems like just yesterday. My littlest one was joining her sister on the walk to school for her first day of kindergarten. She'd been making the walk for two years already, but here she was going inside to a classroom, instead of returning home with Mommy. Now, that little one is heading off to 4th grade, and her sister A is going to be getting on the bus for the first time to go to Middle School. After 6 years, how strange it will be to not have both of my daughters on the walk to school. Instead I'll walk one to the bus stop at o'dark-thirty, and an hour and 15 minutes later, I'll walk the younger one to school.
Some days feel so long (especially when there is a lot of homework, activities to get to, dinners to squeeze in, bedtime to enforce), and yet it goes so quickly. For A, the elementary chapter is over. Just like that. In back to school shopping this year there were no crayons on the supply list, and we had to get college ruled paper and notebooks, instead of wide ruled. Little K is no longer the baby-faced tot you see in these photos, who looks forward to circle time and finger painting. In what seems like weeks, but is really years, she has become a serious student, writing volumes and taking detailed notes, and approaching each school project with the weight of a college application essay.
This weekend is filled with anticipation for the girls as they get ready for a new school year. Throughout the neighborhood all the kids are a-chatter about who is which class, who got which teacher, who got a new lunchbox, etc. There's a whole new crop of kindergartners who will join us on the walk to school next week, and the older kids are filling their ears and minds with stories and advice. In the photos in this post my girls were the ones taking in all the gossip about mean teachers and awesome field trips, and now they're the experts, telling the little kids to "watch out" for this, and "don't forget your permission slip" for that. How quickly they grow.
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