That Moment....

My BFF Heather recently posted a blog http://www.inallcyriousness.blogspot.com/ about her kids going off to the first full day of school. I re-read it a couple of times and thought back to that moment. The moment I brought my baby to kindergarten, then to full days of Grade 1.

I remember holding Delaney's hand and looking at ALL the kids around the playground and thinking, 'I can not just drop my child off here! There are so many kids! What if she gets lost? Or hurt? Or......' I also remember thinking that the grade 7's looked HUGE and mean. Also they dressed stupid.

Fast forward...and I mean FAST...to fall of 2011. I walked my baby girl to the school, where she was now the big, mean, stupidly dressed grade 7. She had painstakingly put on mascara (since years ago, she asked me when she could wear make-up to school and I said, 'UH...grade 7' in quite a hurry, thinking that was YEARS away. Well, she didn't forget, and she was very excited to get to wear make up to school) and picked out her clothes. She ruled the school. One. LAST. YEAR...until high school.

My Mommy heart soared and broke all at the same time. My Delaney Frances is a wonderful girl, inside and out, but she is not a little girl anymore. Calvin and I are doing what we are supposed to. We are teaching her that she can do ALL things through Him who strengthens her. We are reminding her to make good choices, even when we aren't around....and yet part of my heart breaks because time must move on....just in time for me to do this all over again next year with my sweet Avery Vanessa.