Bittersweet graduation...

So today was our girls last day of preschool, EVER!

sigh...yea!....sigh...smile....tears

I am happy one minute because I know they are SO READY, 

but sad one minute because this is the end of an era...

a decade of our four children being in preschool!

Gosh I feel old! (I'm not, by the way!)

Happy one minute because we got a "big financial raise"

...no more preschool payments;

sad because the spontaneous early afternoon play dates and ballet lessons 

will all have to move to late afternoon 

and will eventually be replaced on occasion with homework.

But they have been nurtured like these flowers from the church preschool.

It has been a place of faith...

They have grown academically, socially and spiritually.

Preschool crafts as far as the eye can see...a hallway like a sea of tempura paints.

Doorway decorations telling of summer to come...

The final music performance was a smashing success. 

They managed to get almost every parent to cry

And TK books filled with words, pictures and drawings from the entire school year.

Plus a Father's Day gift wrapped and ready for June!

And discussions about what they want to be when they grow up...

A fun picnic afterwards and hugs from our preschool director, Mrs. Smith...

and hugs from our TK teachers Mrs. Bones

and Mrs. Payne...

More hugs from our friends like Thomas...

Being silly with Jane...

And more hugs from Alice!

Then the class gift to the teachers...

A gift indeed...this year has been a gift.

And now off to summer. 

I am happy because they have been given their wings and have grown

and now they are ready and prepared to fly.

Anyone else out there feeling the bittersweetness of an ending era?

xoxo,

C

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