I stopped teaching elementary school when Anna was born. In fact, my last teaching day was a Friday. Labor Day was that Monday. And Anna was born that Tuesday. But that break only lasted until Anna started Kindergarten. I homeschool my children. I have since September 10, 2001, Anna's first day of Kindergarten. However, I send them to other teachers for things I know better than to try and teach them (like Chemistry - ugh!)!
I will not start my official homeschool year until after Labor Day but today is Anna's first day of class.
It is her first day of her senior year.
That, to me, is so hard to believe.
Because, to me, she is still the little girl I remember starting her first day of preschool.
And because, to me, she is still the little girl that I started teaching in her Kindergarten year way back in September 2001.
Having already lived and watched as one daughter, Crystol, graduated from high school and having gone through all of the work that comes with getting a daughter into college, moving her in and out of dorms and apartments, and having watched with pride as she completed college, I know what today - Anna's 1st day of her senior year - brings.
It means I have done my job getting her this far.
But it also means it is the beginning of the end of my time with my daughter.
However, even though she is driving herself to her classes and she is moving further away from me (as it should be in the order of life), my Anna will NEVER be away from the part of my heart that only she occupies.
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