Travelingjenny

How is this possible? How can my little buddy already be in first grade? With a missing front tooth, and shiny new big-kid sneakers? Sweet Tess was pretty excited (though also a bit nervous), and had a big grin on her face as she got started making the name sign for her cubby this morning. Later I saw her in the hallway getting her snack, with the same huge smile. And then I saw her coming back from recess – her first recess! – holding hands with a classmate, both eating apples they had just picked. She's going to be just fine, and she's going to learn to read and do math and all of those other amazing big-kid things. And I'm going to eagerly listen to her tell stories about how amazing and fun it is, and yes – my heart is going to break a little, because I just can't believe this is all going by so fast. 

And don't even get me started on third grade (more on that soon)…