School Starts Today

What a glorious yet sad day it is today. As the kids go off to school it is so exciting to know that I am going to have the house all to myself and that the peace and quiet will be so wonderful, however with this new found freedom comes the saddness of knowing that my baby is now in school and that it will not be long before he is all grown up. Randall was so excited about the prospect of starting school this morning that he did not even want to give me the satisfaction of taking him to class on his first day of school. I have always loved the fact that I got to take Brenden and Mikel to school on thier first day of Kindergarten as well as the first day of school every year since, and then there was Randall. He tried to jump on the bus this moring with the girls so that he could be a big boy and go to school, If he had his way about it then he would have gone to school on his own and loved every minute of it. He is so grown up. It is funny how children do not know how important it is to us as parents to get to do these things with them, however I know that mommys can often cramp the styles of our young ones when they think that they are big. So as I look forward to my day of quiet, I have to also remember that my boys are all growing up and I have to take advantage of the little things while they are here because they do not last forever.