Kindergarten and things...

I am tired.  So tired.  There were a LOT of emotions and new changes last week and it all caught up with me tonight! So the easiest way to get this blog written is to copy and paste captions from Facebook.  I documented Lucy's first day of school on FB and rather than pretty much write the exact same stuff, I'm just gonna bring it over to my blog :)  Let's just say Thursday was one of the hardest days (in my Mom life) that I've ever experienced.  Call me dramatic- but it's MY heart that feels these things and it hurt oh-so-bad!  So here I go:

 .... And just like that, she's gone. 
(For the record, I kept it together pretty well... until Piper started bawling at drop-off and hugged and kissed Lucy goodbye telling her she would miss her so much. Then the floodgates opened). This heartache is really tough.😥💔Be sweet. Be happy. And spread kindness wherever you go, baby girl.

Piper had a hard time letting Lucy go to her first day of school. After she said all her goodbyes with lots of hugs and kisses, we were walking out and she said "wait, I want to blow her a kiss." So she did, and Lucy "caught" it and blew one back. She told Lucy when she was hugging her goodbye that she was her best friend😪💔 Now Lucy is out in the big world without her little sidekick, and without me protecting her and my heart feels like it's being wrenched out of my body. I've dreaded this day for 5 years and it was just as hard as I always knew it would be.😢 ‪#‎FirstTimer‬ ‪#‎ImAMess‬

MID-DAY UPDATE ON THURSDAY: "I just think of all the things that her starting school means for us. She's not in the safe bubble of our home anymore. I'm not her main influence anymore. It's killing me. I can't stop crying."

{I literally cried all day.....}

I looked up at Piper eating her lunch alone and I burst into tears.  I brought Piper to the pool and usually we stay for 2 hours, but she was done after 25 minutes because she said she was so lonely without Lucy.  Every time I saw her playing alone, I would cry.  Life with Lucy is all she has ever known and it's going to be a tough adjustment.

I anxiously waited until 3:45 for this face today to come out of school and tell me EVERYTHING that she did for 7 hours. Usually she NEVER. STOPS. TALKING. But today, it's like trying to nail jello to a tree to get her to talk! She just says "I don't know" to every question I ask! She said she had fun but she doesn't remember anything she did.🤔 And she was hungry... 

FRIDAY MORNING:

Victory! No tears from any of us today at drop-off!

I'm gonna have to be peeled off the sidewalk in front of the school when Sully starts!

So that was my week.  Holy moly it was tough for me to let her go:(  On Friday night, even Lucy had a melt-down.  She wanted to sleep in Piper's bed with her so badly because she said she missed her all week.  The bond these sister's have for each other is STRONG and it's been hard for all of us to experience these growing pains :(

But now that I caught up on school recaps- here is a random little ADORABLE picture.  Our neighbor, Davis, and Piper were playing with bugs together on Saturday morning and Davis' Dad (Pat Van Hoose) snapped this sweet picture.  I am so sad that the Van Hooses are moving! They are such a great family!  At least we had almost 2 months with them :)

And that brings me to today! The weather was only in the 80s! It felt amazing and it was cool enough to be outside without melting! We walked to one of our neighborhood ponds and fed ducks and it was a perfect opportunity to snap some darling pictures!

  

And last but not least: pictures of my favorite little boy in the whole entire universe!

 

And now I'm done.  Time for sleeeeeep!