the graduate

Ingrid graduated from Pre-K today. It was a sweet ceremony, even though we didn't catch one smile on film during the ceremony. It turns out that the preschool director had given the students strict instructions as to how to act...like little ladies and gentlemen. Ingrid must have really taken this to heart. She was practically a statue!

Pomp & Circumstance

With the other little statues

With sweet "Mrs. R."

Now that she's a Kindergartner, I guess she will be turning up her nose at the rest of us

Ilsa did crunches during the ceremony.

first day....last day

** The first day of school **

** The last day of school with her wonderful teacher "Mrs. R." **

** "Come on Ingrid, would you just smile already?"

Today was Ingrid's last day of pre-K. I just got home after a celebratory ice cream treat at Sonic drive in (eating in the car on a relatively chilly 67 degrees here in Almost Mexico!).

I'm surprisingly melancholy for a number of reasons: a milestone has been passed that will never again be visited; I loved her teacher, and she loved Ingrid; but primarily because she never liked it; she never got over the jitters of heading off to school; there was a teary day at least once a week about school, and plenty of grumbling in between times. Her heart was just never in it.

I believe we did the right thing having her in pre-K, and we are earnest and confident in our choice to homeschool. I guess I just need to move on.