Big girl, Sad Momma

I don't know why I am so sad about the first day of school. She is in the same building with me, just like she has been virtually all her life(this time is school, up till now in the staff nursery). I had to fight back tears as I took her picture next to her ribbon, I fought back tears as I walked out the door, as I walked down the hall and up the stairs to my classroom. She is literally 60 seconds away from me, but I felt like I had never been away from her in my life.

It is not like she wasn't happy, she knew the classroom from summer school and her teacher. I guess it is just momma. I know it is great for her, but I feel a guilty. Like sending her to school instead of being with me all day long is the worst thing I could do to her. I am worried that if Ella is the only baby God sends me, this will be the only "first day of school" I will ever get.

All right, enough. I snapped a few pics. I particularly like the one with Gee-ga-maw-who I might mention is also in the same building with us less than 5 minutes away. Is is great for her to be so close too, she gets to see the little monkey much more that way.


On the way to school...
In front of her cubbie and ribbon.

Who turned out the lights????

I found this when I came in from mowing the backyard! At least he didn't eat another birthday cake. ( For those of you who didn't hear, I made Ella a birthday cake that took four hours to make- fondant and the whole bit. The dog ate it when I went in the backyard to turn off the sprinklers.) This was alot funnier than that little disaster.