My inspiration for this record of my days:

“The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make. . . . I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less” -Anna Quindlen

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

First day of kindergarten

Eli was SO READY to start school!


In the car on the way I asked him "Are you nervous buddy?  Or just excited?"
His answer: "I don't know what nervous means, but I am really excited!"
Me: "Nervous is when you feel a little scared, because you don't know exactly what something will be like."
Him: "Ya, I don't feel that at all.  Just excited!"



His cute teacher is Miss Riggs


At meet the teacher he filled out this darling All About Me paper


 Luckily, he had recovered from his on-the-way-to-meet-the-teacher injury a few days before:


And a story from two weeks into the school year:
We were all talking at the dinner table when Eli announced "I need to share a word with all of you." That got everyone's attention. "Today at school on the playground I saw something like a really rough crowd.  I looked in the middle of everyone, and somebody pushed a girl on the ground.  So I went and helped her up."  He was feeling pretty confident that he was choosing the right.  We were all very proud!

Eli is off to a great start in Kindergarten!

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