1st Day of School...for the 2nd child, anyway.

Strike a pose!

You wait for it, you count down to it, and you prepare for it. The first day of school. Why? Because you're tired of your children's cantankerous behavior toward each other after being cooped up together all summer - especially the last three weeks. Because you're tired of hearing the same words coming out of your mouth, like: "Don't touch each other," and "Please don't breathe on him/her" and "Knock it off," and "Stop copying your brother's/sister's words," and "If you do that one more time...". And because it's what you do come fall... and I love fall. (Which after our 15th day of 100+ temperatures seems to be nowhere in sight.)

So why, then, was it so hard for me to leave Meaghan in that classroom and walk out the door? Is it because it's her last year of preschool? Or maybe because it's my last year of preschool? She was fine...had her friends, her new clothes, her new shoes. All she needed was for her parents to get out. So when we got the nod from the teacher, we left...me dragging my feet a little while I turned around a few last times. //sigh//

And so her first day of her last year of preschool commenced. Success!

By the way, that pose in the first picture? All her. I said, "Let me take your picture," and that's what she gave me. And more...