Kindergarten Jitters

There is officially 14 days until the first day of kindergarten for my oldest, Bella. I knew it was coming... but I forgot how quickly. I don't know why I was surprised their entire lives thus far have been a wonderful and crazy whirlwind. I'm just along for the ride and hanging on for dear life most days but enjoying every single second of it.I was so wrapped up in prepping her for the actual education that she needed before entering school that I never took into consideration what I was going to feel like when the time actually came to let her go to that first day of school. Not that that's what is important ( well, it is a little to me..hell, a lot).

My 2 little Goofballs! God how I Love 'em!

Anyways, I was picking up some uniforms for her and she had to try them on. My daughters have their Daddy's height and its legs for days, so to be safe we must try everything on. After all, I can't send her to her first day at Catholic school looking like a little tartlet. She's trying on the uniforms in the changing  room. We are all crammed into one of those family changing rooms. You know the ones.As her goof ball little sister, runs around screaming at the very top of her lungs in the highest, most annoying little chipmunk voice you've ever heard pass human lips: "Mommy, it stinks. Somebody Faaaahhhhted!" I'm trying to get her to lower it all down an octave( or three) totally engrossed in trying to put out the Gabi fire of 2010.

Meanwhile, Bella ( ever turning into such a big and independent little girl) gets her outfit on and calls out to me, in her still very heavily babified voice(my bestie calls them her 2 little kitties ( meow, meow, meow, meow, meow) "How does this look Mommy?" As I raise my head up to look at her, my eyes meet hers, she is completing a spin ( ever the spinning ballerina) and then it hit me. Right there. Like a ton of bricks....My baby is starting kindergarten in less than a month. I was a little in shock, and a little bit teary eyed, a little bit proud, and a lot sad. It feels like the beginning of the end....of her childhood. What a place to have an A-HA moment. Now, I am in a mad dash to enjoy every single day left with my babies before school starts. I just want to linger here in preschool/toddler land for a bit more and soak it all up ,like the last glimpses of the summer sun.

I am so dreading the first day, like most of you can imagine.