Have I Been Asleep for Six Years?

Where have the last six years of my life gone? I remember bits and pieces, and there are photos, but can someone please tell me how it is that my five pound baby boy is "graduating" from kindergarten to first grade? It just isn't possible.

I'm going on Frank's class field trip today, for the end-of-year kindergarten picnic. Monday night is his "graduation" ceremony, Tuesday is the end-of-year playday and Wednesday is his last day of school. But wait, he only started school a couple of days ago, how could the year have gone by that quickly?

I've kept all his school work from the year in two notebooks. The changes and growth he has experienced this year are remarkable. I will miss his kindergarten teacher more than he will, she graciously helped me through my first year as the parent of a child going to school, and gently guided me through what I should freak out about and what I shouldn't. I can only pray his first grade teacher will be so kind.

Now I know why there are women who have thirteen kids . . . I want my baby back.