I did it. I cried when I dropped my son off for his first day of Kindergarten. I honestly didn’t think I would. I felt good about his going and I knew he was ready. In some ways, I was consumed with guilt about not being sad that my little boy was growing up. I hear that all mothers cry on the first day of Kindergarten. How could I be the one mother who doesn’t cry? I am, after all, the over-loving, smothering type.
But then it hit me. Three separate times I was blinking back tears – once as we …read more