I feel like it has been ages since I have posted on the blog. I’ve missed it but been very busy with business stuff and LIFE. My oldest just started kindergarten last week. I thought I’d be fine when she got on the bus but I did end up getting teary and having to call the school to make sure she was actually there! When I picked her up from school, she promptly told me that she was now big enough to take the bus home! She then went on to rattle off all of the rules she had learned in school. I’m not sure I can remember them, but she sure could. How is it that she can’t remember the rules at home?!! Some of the rules that she recited were; keep your hands to yourself, no pushing, pick stuff up off the floor, raise your hand if you make a mess, etc…. It kind of reminded me of a poem that we all know and love so well. I thought I’d share an exerpt of it with you all because it is so simple and true.
All I Really Need To Know
About How To Live and What To Do And How To Be, I learned in Kindergarten.
by Robert Fulghum
These are the things I learned:
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don’t hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don’t take things that aren’t yours.
Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life–learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and
dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and
stick together.
And because a post is never quite complete with out photographs here are a few of my little (big) girl on her first day of kindy. My favorite are the ones of her looking so small in the hallway. I’m sure I will treasure these a few years down the road and she will seem oh so small.
