It finally happened!

School came.

Let us all take a moment and humbly bow our heads in gratitude for wonderful days like The First Day of School.

And then an insane happy shout like you've lost your mind and you don't care!!!!

That pretty much sums up my life.

Last week was rough. Really rough. I called my mother and said, "Why didn't anyone tell me that the week before school would be SO HARD?!!" She said, "Because we didn't want to scare you to death." :)

On Monday night she was upset about going to bed earlier. After a frustrating hour or so, Rob talked to her about being nervous the night before school. He said he remembered being nervous before his first day of school when he was a kid. That is a foreign idea for me, because I just remember either not wanting to go back to school, or being SO ready for school. Excited, maybe, but not nervous.

Tuesday morning, though, she was no longer nervous. I asked Rob to stay a little later and see her off to the bus. She was really happy to have her daddy around for that.

She got on the bus and immediately was yacking with the girl in the front seat.

After she was gone, Rob and I walked back to the house. Rob said in a cute little almost-fake voice, "Our little girl is growing up." I stopped and said, "Do we need to have a crying moment?" He said, "I'm actually already crying a little." I hugged my cute sensitive man and smiled. He said, "I feel kind of silly, crying." I told him, "Look, just because I don't cry, doesn't mean it's silly to cry." :)

Two things occurred to me in that moment (other than the obvious: Rob is more sentimental than I am). #1: Rob wasn't there when we saw Miciah off to the bus for Kindergarten. So this was his first First Day of School experience. #2: Rob didn't live through the Hellish last week the same way I did. For me, the first day of school was a triumphant ending to a near-torturous week. For him, though, he was just watching his little girl grow up.

So, here's to sensitive men. Here's to the First Day of School. Here's to growing up!