Blessing in Desguise

A few weeks back Lance got a new laptop for me. So he decided to copy all of the photos on the other laptop onto our external hard drive and then delete them from the old laptop. OOPS. He forgot to check the hard drive to make for sure that all of the photos had been properly saved before deleting them off the laptop. Thank goodness I didn't lose my cool. After some thought, I realized that I at least still had all of the highlights of our photos from the past year right here, on this blog, and a few extra on facebook as well. Talk about relief! So sharing my photos in more than one place has turned out to be quite useful for me in the process of recovery!

Just checking

...how many of you actually read the blog lately ;)

And we officially have a Pre-Schooler!

Getting ready to go meet her teacher

All dressed up and excited for Preschool Orientation

Well, it has happened. I am now officially the mother of a school going child. GULP. Seriously, where have the last 4 1/2 years gone? Monday I took Kenzie to meet her teacher, and to my surprise, I sat through over an hour of parent orientation as well. I felt guilty because I needed to rush back to work.

Today was Miss Kenzie's 1st official day of preschool. So bittersweet! I love that Kenzie is old and brave enough to go to classes and such on her own but so sad that my baby doesn't "need" me all of the time anymore. Ya, ya, I know, I'm over-reacting but its my first born child we're talking about here!

The day was a success. As you can see Kenzie was very excited to go today. However, she was a bit miffed that when she gets to class after washing her hands, she has to sit and color. She wanted to play! She came home with a bag full of projects and smiles galore. She didn't miss Mommy one bit.

Kylie and I did miss Kenzie though. I managed to only get severely choked up but not shed tears once we were out of Kenzie's eye sight. However, nearly home Kylie says "Momma, I miss Kenzie. Do you?" Insert waterworks and my gulping to answer "Mommy does too!" But we both quickly settled in to our routines as she napped and I got caught up on housework and before we knew it it was time to pick up Kenzie. Whew!