Kindergarten

This is my second consecutive year to send a child to kindergarten... Over the past year, with two kindergarten milestones in a row, I’ve often wondered why sending a child to kindergarten is so heartbreaking for moms. I think I’ve figured it out. The first five years of a child’s life fly by, each year passing more quickly than the one before. Kindergarten is one of the first times a mother realizes just how fast her children are growing up. And, although we shudder to think of it, before we know it we will be packing their moving boxes instead of their lunch boxes. And it makes us sad.