I can't believe I have a 1st grader! 1st Grade!! Where has the time gone? I think I had more anxiety about her starting than she did. I was a little nervous about switching schools, but it has turned out to be so great. It is a great school, and I couldn't be happier with the move. A couple weeks before school started, we got a darling note in the mail from her teacher that got Lilly really excited. Along with the note was an invitation for us to come and meet the teacher, and do a scavenger hunt around the school so she could get a little familiar with the school before the first day of school. I thought that was such a cute idea. That was my first of many "I really like this school" moments!
The actual day of school was full of excitement, anxiety and a little bit of fear too! Lilly was the most nervous I have ever seen her. She was making herself sick she was so nervous. Therefore, it was making it really hard on me. She never once said that she didn't want to go, but she just kept saying "Mama, I am so nervous". Little sweet heart. She wanted me to pack her a lunch in her new lunch box Anton bought her, and I slipped a little note in it for her - which she loved.
It was fun for her to get to school and see all her friends from the ward and neighborhood (which all happen to be in her class!!). As soon as I pulled into the parking lot, I was trying my very hardest to hold back the tears. We walked up to her line, snapped some pictures, and then she was off!! And, I was a wreck! I thought about her all day long. I wondered what she was doing, if she liked her lunch and the note, wondered who she was playing with at recess, etc.
3:20 rolled around and I was there to see her when she came out, and it was a moment forever etched in my memory. She was beaming!! She loved her first day, and has loved school ever since. She is reading amazing, loving her teacher and classmates, and is so happy. Couldn't ask for anything more!!
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