School Day Blues

This week has begun a new adventure for me.  An adventure of change. 

As I stood at the bus stop this morning and waved at my five-year old son, I felt that creeping plague I like to call the “school day blues” come over me.

Granted, I’d been shipping my oldest child off to school for three years now, but today was my son’s very first day of school.  Funny how us mothers cry when it comes to placing our children into the hands of another for several hours of the day. I did the same thing when my oldest started kindergarten – twice actually. We moved in the middle of the school year and it felt like I put her on the bus for her first day of kindergarten twice.

I was teary eyed on the first day of pre-school for my son, and I’m teary eyed today on this first day of kindergarten.

But my teary eyed days are not over, oh no not by far. There’s still next week when the school day blues will threaten me again. My youngest daughter will be heading off to preschool. And, in two years there will be another kindergarten first day.

It’s amazing how as a mother we can go from not wanting to part with our children to being anxious for those first days of school starting again. The bliss of a few hours to run errands, shop, or just have time to one’s self.  I’m in the middle. While I miss my children, my days are filled with activities.

I’ve started a new adventure.

How about you? Where is this school year taking you?