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My little girl started first grade last week. She went two days, then had the long Labor Day weekend, and went back this morning. Kind of strange for Patti and I. For my wife, the thing that made it real was the fact that Emily could buy her own lunch. Up until now, Patti made her lunch, which gave us some control over what she ate, important to us. For me, after I saw her line up and walk into the building this morning (they had a meet and greet with the principal), it was tough watching her enter the first of many years of being under the control of someone else. In kgarden, she was full time but it was still kgarden. From this point forward, she will progressively get into more important grades, with her future being in the hands of others. Her ultimate success will be decided within the four walls of our home, and not a school, but her teachers and classmates have a large impact on it. From now on, her education will shift from her mother and I to someone we briefly met at a PTO function.

For some reason I don't think I will mind with the boys. They are boys. But with Emily, she is special, she is smart, outgoing, attentive, hardworking, wonderful and everything I could have hoped for in a daughter. Public school in Milton is top tier, but she is still in a big school, in a big class, eating in a cafeteria with other grades, not being able to walk her to the room like we did in the past. watching her walk into this black hole called Tucker Elementary School.

Anyway, I will be fine, just thought I'd share.