Yeah. No kiddin, "senior"....but still....today I got a sweatshirt with my girls' school logo on it and I'm so excited...like the kind of excited when I used to buy my boys cowboy boots and they wore them to bed the first night? I'm so doing that. This transition from homeschool mama to "real" school mom is making me feel like the young mom's I met today with kindergartners. And then I look at their hands and their skin is young and smooth and fits just so and mine......doesn't....and plus my child is looking me in the eye, which would just be creepy if she were a kindergartner. But reality checks don't stop the happy and I don't care if I am ridiculous.
Today I worked the student store and learned how to sell student uniforms like a boss. I got to meet some parents and kids and I gravitated to the youngest ones because they were "new" like me and, wide eyed,I asked them if they were excited and I whispered, "Me too!" They couldn't wait to eat lunch in the cafeteria, cause, what could be funner than that, I ask you? PBJ's always taste better in the big world. Remind me to order that the first day of school.
It's a wonder to see a little person just setting off and be able to feel their excitement with them and find out their name is Mathew, who told me quite confidently how to spell it without me even asking. No grown up spelled their name when they introduced themselves to me. That's because we've all forgotten how fabulous it is that we learned to do that all by ourselves and remember it! It equally jazzes me to see young man and woman "cubs", all voice changey and giggly curls, stepping into their soon-to-be-adult lives and feel my stomach jump for them at all that's ahead.
So, I finished the day and turned off the fan and closed and locked the door with my brand new shiny key fob and thought..."Girl. You are silly." And you know what? I'm okay with that. :)
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