Here we goooooo!!!

To the end of the year.....{Now, make sure you say that in your best Peter Pan style voice as he sails the Darling children off to Neverland 'cause....well...it just sounds better that way :-)  }

This is the beginning of the end...I was just humming, "This is the end...my faithful friend the end" ala Jim Morrison but that didn't seem quite right, and yet, it is the end....of an era.  Today was the Mystery Trip, which is the traditional last fieldtrip for the 5th graders, an all day extravaganza, planned by the parents that is based on how much money you fund raise...we have been very lucky this year and the kids had a banner day.  They played to their hearts' content during the first half and then frollicked...or romped, depending on who you were viewing at any given moment, in the park for lunch, caricatures and a DJ dance party before heading back to school to enjoy a special visit from the ice cream truck and then heading home!  Needless to say, Lexi is exhausted(YAY-maybe she'll go to bed early tonight and I can watch a TV show that I want all the way through for a change! )  So it was a wonderful day, at least from the kids' perspectives...the parents....well, yes, it was great and didn't rain and no one got too seriously hurt but...they also got t-shirts that said "Falcons Class of 2017" and that my friends was the kicker.....they are no longer our babes, our little ones, our munchkins or mini-mes....they are now refered to in terms of when they will graduate from high school!!!!  How did this happen?????  Where did the time go?????  Wasn't it just yesterday that we were having a cute little sock hop for them finishing Kindergarten?????

I am sooo not ready for this, not that one can really prepare for it and actually...if you have been doing your job right as a parent, them moving on fairly smoothly just means it is all good but....can't we just pause?  Where is that universe remote?  I want to pause...and maybe even rewind a bit, ya know?

I know Lexi is ready to move on, and truthfully, all of the gigantic 5th graders do need to leave, they tower over those baby Kindergartners even more now than they did at the beginning of the year but....something about the fact that my little girl, my fairyfaye, will be moving on to a brave new world...ok, actually a scary new world of middle school insanity(and we ALL know what I am alluding to there) is really just wrong.  Granted Bella is thrilled that she will be the "oldest&only" as far as paperwork home is concerned and yet I think that she will indeed miss her big sister being there more than she is willing to let on.  And I will miss the "young world" of elementary school in which we had been exclusively residing for the past six years, *gasp*...has it really been that long?  Now I know we will still be there with B, but...it won't be the same.  Our house will be divided, so to speak, we will have two seperate schools(actually three with CCL) in which we have to coordinate various schedules and attend various events and...I just don't know that I am ready for this!!!!!

Ok, sorry...enough rambling...basically I am somewhat of a basket case as my next two weeks are booked solid every day with events and "lasts" and Lexi will be "promoted" next Wed. and then Field and Fun day and then...that's it...she's no longer a little girl.....it will be official and.....I'm just not ready, I'm just not.

Soooo, if anyone out there has that universe remote to which I was refering and they would be so kind as to lend it to me, I would greatly appreciate it....or at least give me a heads up if they do push pause...or maybe just slow-mo so that I can sit back, relax and enjoy, that'd be swell, thanks.

Oh yeah, on a different topic, I got my stitches out today!!!!!  Unfortunately due to the ragged nature of the cut I must still wear a band-aid until there are no more "skintabs" or I am liable to open it right back up...cause ya know, I never do anything the simple way, right?  And..I had a blood-letting which so far is only showing a slight bruise(woo-hoo) but that was just a minor incident in the insanity of the day and my mind and so I shall now bid you adeiu.

Blog ya later-
K