Well, my little man started kindergarten. And I was surprisingly not-at-all sad because it was such a happy time. Seriously. Not even a hint of a tear. I think it was because he was SO STINKIN’ EXCITED that there was just no way to be anything other than thrilled to pieces about the whole big school adventure.
The back-to-school breakfast? Grits, of course. And a few minutes of Star Wars. Because OH MY SWEET MERCY the Star Wars obsession around here is somewhere around mach-five-Death-Star-Obi-Wan-warp-speed-squared levels.
(No sense I make.)
(Eluded me always science-fiction has.)
Anyway.
The first day marked the return to tennis shoes after a summer of Crocs and flip-flops. The little man was so happy to see a pair of REAL LIVE SOCKS when he was getting dressed that you would’ve sworn they were long-lost friends. Which I guess they sort of were. Since he hasn’t worn socks since May and all.
A. adores his teacher, who, by all accounts, is the Mary Poppins of the kindergarten set. I also adore her because she has more of a Southern accent than I do, and that is NO SMALL FEAT, my friends.
After the first chock-full-o-fun-day-o-school, we went to lunch with my sweet friend NK and her girls. We did this last year after the first day of preschool, and we decided to make it an annual tradition. The kids had a great time comparing notes on their kindergarten classes, and then they enjoyed a lively game of hide and seek on the restaurant’s patio.
Yes. You read that correctly. I ate a meal in the out of doors. In Alabama. In August. And somehow lived to tell the tale.
So, to recap: my child started kindergarten and I did not cry. Then we went to lunch and I ate outside. Either I’m in the midst of a profound hormonal imbalance or I experienced two miracles within six hours of each other.
It’s probably that first thing.
But even still. It was a really great day.
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Channeling Yoda, you are.
Breakfast of Champions, grits are.
Kindergartener lover, A is :).
Hormonal imbalance (not touchin’ that with a ten-foot pole!)
;)
(His face is shining brighter than the sun in those picchas…so proud, he is (oops! Yoda again!) ).
I’m glad you made it without crying. Alex is BEAUTIFUL!!! Seeing him so happy – had to make you happy!
I totally caught the Yoda reference. ha!
August in AR right now is 68 degrees – what is going on?????? This may be the first year where I don’t lost 5 lbs in sweat at the first football game.
P.S. Harper would totally wear a Miss State outfit – but only when the dawgs play Ole miss!
My daughter started kindergarten this year too, but I did cry… like a baby! It’s okay now, but it’s taken two weeks!
I am glad yall had a good experience – enjoy the new “freedom”!
Finally, a mom willing to admit she didn’t cry! I didn’t either because my son was so incredibly thrilled to be going to ‘big school’ with his friends and computers and a cafeteria! He loved it then. Seven years later, not so much. Everyone always talks about how sad it is and I felt like a bad mom for not being upset. How silly we mamas can be.
sometimes i tell these yankees that my southern accent was MUCH worse than it is now…. and they don’t believe me.
glad to know someone has an accent thicker than yours.
My kids found where I had stashed their socks and have taken to wearing them constantly. With crocs, sandals, whatever they can get away with. And since I’m on bed rest, I can’t really control it. Sam likes to wear socks so he can slide around the house and run into walls. Should I be concerned?
Those must be fierce hormones at work to keep a Mama from sobbing on her baby boy’s first day of kindergarten. And an outside lunch all in one day. This is beginning to sound like science fiction.
Glad to hear he has a supercalafra…you know what I mean…teacher.
It’s still flipflop weather down in the south of Georgia.
BUT, I just told my 5yodd yesterday that she has to stop using her socks for PollyPocket beds from this point on or else we’ll not have any socks that match when Fall arrives!!
She even had her brother’s r2d2 in a sock bed yesterday!
How sweet! This makes me look forward to my daughter’s first day of school–and makes me glad that I still have a couple of years before that happens. :-)
Oh, happy day for Boo and his mama! :- )
august in arkansas is weird right now. we could so eat outside if we didn’t mind rain in our food.
he looks adorable and so happy!
Oh -the milestones! I was not upset with my A’s start of school. He was ready and excited. However the first tooth to come out sent me over the edge! He no longer LOOKED as young.
Blessings on the year!
My oldest starts kindergarten after Labor Day. We’re home schooling so it’s a little different. I may cry anyway. For different reasons but related to him and Kinderg. = )
Nothing weird there, well maybe the outdoors thing for lunch. It is totally out of the question down here in T’town.
I was elated when my kids went off to school and they were too. The only thing they were not elated about…..wearing tennis shoes!
You know, it’s just as okay not to cry, right?! I’m glad you’re enjoying him so much Boomama. So glad Howard had such a great start. ;)
WOW – you would have to be visually impaired to not be able to see that he is your child…..he is a little clone of you!
Did that sentance make sense? I think I may just have broken some unspoken grammar law…
Anyway, he is, in one word…
Adorable!
My 5 yr old was elated about going to Kindergarten. Me not so much. I cried to which he promptly responded, “Mom, quit acting stupid”. I walked him to his classroom and asked for a kiss to which I got “Uh, no Mom. And no hugs either”. No separation anxiety on his part. He’s the same kid who had to sleep with me and hold my hand the night before, but the friends weren’t watching then. :)
I would like to tell you the Star Wars thing will eventually settle down but it hasn’t. Feel your pain, I do. Darn that little green man!
Alex is getting so big! Too cute!
Oh my goodness! That child has the most beautiful eyes.
I have no children, but I remember my 1st day of kindergarten (wayyyy back when circa 1977) and I remember setting out what I wanted to wear, my hair ribbons, etc. It was a big day!
Glad to hear it went well! : )
awe…what a handsome and happy little guy. well done, BooMama, well done. :)
i vote for miracle. glad he had a good first day!
Seriously, miraculous! I couldn’t even look at my little man because he had such a look of trepidation on his face. You see, he’s a little guy, and those other kindergartners? Well, they’re not so little! I made it through the drop off and goodbyes, but the second the car door shut, it was all over. Bawled the whole way to work! You would have thought he was my first. I guess it’s that he’s the last! Way to have the inner strength, Boomama! Maybe it was a little of the forward thinking about lunch that helped you hold it together?
I took my baby to PreK today. For a whole two and one half hours. Sweet little thing wanted his momma to stay in class. But he didn’t cry. I didn’t cry.
Es un milagro.
I was a kindergarten teacher for several years before I began my role as stay-at-home mom. The beginning of the school year was always such an exciting time with everything from clothes to crayons fresh and new. There is nothing better than a happy child (and parent) on the first day of kindergarten!
My daughter started kindergarten this week too. It was bittersweet, but I didn’t cry either – she was just too excited and happy about it for me not to be as well. Now if we could just get her to tell us about her day…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-gi4Nt_xxg&feature=related
You MUST listen/watch the above if you are Star Wars people….hysterical!
I hate eating outside with the bugs. It’s most scary! I’m glad you did okay with sending A out into the world…big steps! :o)
I loved this post! I have so much anxiety about my daughter going to kindergarten and she doesn’t even start until next year. I have read so many blog posts lately about parents sending their kids off to school for the first time but your post for once didn’t make me feel anxious or sad. It made me feel excited for my daughter instead! Thank you! I also love the picture of the two kids together. So sweet!
I’m glad he was so excited. My oldest started kindergarten today too & he was just thrilled with the idea. I waited until the bus was out of sight before I cried.
We’re going out to dinner soon & the boys have requested we sit outside. I’m hoping I manage to survive that.
Your little man is as cute as a button!
I’m SO glad! I was praying for you all and kindergarten this week.
I sent our Tabor off to half day kindergarten (it’s $13 a day for full day in Colorado!) and had nary a tear either. I guess it’s just such a great time to see a few flying feathers growing in, that they must fly with them a bit!
See you this weekend!
Love,
Holly
I know it’s a really big deal for your little man to have started kindergarten, but seriously, you ate outside in the middle of the day in Alabama? I’m not even sure why they offer outdoor seating from April to October… ;).
My girls have been in school since the 7th: one in 10th grade and the other in 8th. booooo hooooo
I’m leaving Friday for San Antonio!!! WOO HOO I’m so so so excited (can you tell?)!!
OMG he’s so cute! I’m glad he had a good time and that you didn’t cry. I did the “sucking in of breath” when I dropped the older one off last year but I didn’t cry till I got back to the car. I didn’t want to embarrass him. But I totally shocked myself when I didn’t cry when I dropped my baby off at preschool. Maybe because he’s heck on wheels. I was just glad to be free of that one for a few hours;)
Awwww, so cute. Now just wait until he goes to college. Betcha you’ll cry then!
Oh my stinkin’ heck the Star Wars obsession has been around here for over a year, and I have ALL GIRLS. The husband is living vicariously through his girls since he hasn’t been blessed with boys yet.
On the kindergarten front, we started homeschooling with my oldest in kindergarten last week. I wanted to cry all week because I didn’t send her to school! Serious adjustments going on here, but this week is going better!
What a cutie – he looks just like his Mama. My youngest starts kindergarten next week. I don’t think that I will cry either, because I know he is in good hands. His teacher also taught my older two children. On the other hand, my oldest starts middle school, and I can already feel the knot in my stomach.
I have been reading your blog for a long time….I cannot believe Alex is in Kindergarten! I cannot imagine Chloe that old!!
What a cutie-pie! So glad he had a nice first day…
I can’t get over how much he looks like his Mama!
So are you excited about this weekend yet?
Good for you!! My first born starts the big Kindergarten tomorrow and I’m not going to cry either…at least that’s the plan!
Like your son, she is very excited too and that makes it so much easier. I can’t imagine if she were struggling to go…oh dear….
God bless you in this new phase with your very cute son! :)
I love the remote with b-fast, one can never have enough Star Wars. I too sent my baby to school for the first time and I did not cry, granted his 14, going to high school and crying may have gotten him beat up or something. *smile*
Ahh, that is precious…and the sock story made me laugh.
Dug the Yoda speak.
And could relate to the reunion of socks. But my girl only wears them on pe day when she has to. Because, it is indeed still 105-110 here on the surface of the sun.
He is one cute little mister!
Totally with ya. I didn’t shed a tear on the first day for both of my older kids. But let me warn you, the last day of kindergarten is actually much MUCH worse than the first. That’s when the tears came for me – not because I was bemoaning the fact that I would spend the next 90 days with my children (Every. Single. Day.), but because I realized how quickly the year had passed and how much more quickly the next 12 years would fly.
Love the Star Wars comments! We’re right there with ya on that one, too!
what a GORGEOUS child you have!
He is a handsome little man, Mama. :)
love Yoda.
I’d never seen Star Wars, even the original 3 growing up. So one day, a couple years ago, I sat on the couch with my (very proud to have his Mama do this) 9 yr old, and we watched ALL. SIX. EPISODES.
In order.
Back to Back.
Now that was a long day, my friend.
Good Times.
I’m so glad kindergarten is so much fun for him. My two LOVE school, social butterflies that they are.
I may be a bit weird, but I cried on my child’s last day of kindergarten instead of his first. I was 8 months pregnant and his teacher tearfully read a poem about their kindergarten year. I was a goner! :)
Glad that A is liking kindergarten!
I LURVE the bedhead at breakfast. But in that second picture he is such a big handsome boy! SOOOO cute!
Your son is so handsome! And I’m so glad there were no tears.
My son starts kindergarten next week and is half excited half nervous. So I hope there won’t be any tears – from him or me!
Yay! :) I’m so glad you BOTH had a good day! I don’t “get” science-fiction either. My husband does. A LOT!
My “baby” started K too! No tears for either of us. I asked her if she missed me and she said “what!!! are you kidding me?” That means, no.
I do believe that boy of yours sports your pretty blue eyes! Good job, BooMama, keepin those tears at bay! I really had to suck it up on Pre-K Day One so I wouldn’t embarrass myself in front of the tough moms.
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