BACK TO SCHOOL

Ah the smell of dusty chalk, sharpened pencils, new notebooks and scented erasers. The primary school years are often the ones I reflect on as I watch my little girl get ready to enter the world of full day school. I think I am nervous for her, for very different reasons then why she is scared. I worry about the friendships that she may or may not make - she worries about the kind of teacher she will have. ( this scares me more, so I don't think about it ) I know that she has two years under her belt for school. Last years teacher was amazing, and I know she lives a school life that mommy knows nothing about (unless the call from the school tells me)

My little girl .. is growing up and there is not  damn thing I can do about it, so .. I will embrace it - and her and hold her tight for the next week, because if Kindergarten was any sign of things to come -- within a few weeks the very last of pre-school innocence will be gone and the big school grade one girl will arrive -- sigh.

I wonder if I will feel like this when she graduates med school ( this weeks choice of vocation)

Happy back to school all --

  Where did the time go?

Melanie