Today is Éiden's first day of kindergarten

[janradder]

haddayr and I dropped him off in his classroom. He was a little nervous at first but then warmed up to the tub of blocks at him table and quickly began building a tower like the other kids were doing.

We said goodbye and left, watching him confidently build, and Haddayr started to cry. I didn't, and I thought I was fine. Until I went grocery shopping shortly after and watched all the moms pushing their carts through the aisles with their preschoolers, and I suddenly and fiercely missed my little shopping partner and all our silly jokes as I fully realized that a special part of our lives is over.

Comments

[mia-mcdavid.livejournal.com]

Oh, hugs to both of you!!! We are always losing our children, as they get changed out while we sleep for bigger kids and then finally grown people. How can they take our hearts and then leave us like that?

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

Truer words have never been spoken.

[rsheslin.livejournal.com]

I love watching our little one grow and mature and discover his world, but yes. Always shadowed by that sense of impermanence. Beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time.