On Monday I was able to fill in for our photographer at the Half Moon Bay Review and take the photos for a story about the first day of school. The reporter and I followed a kindergartner from getting up at his house through recess at his school. Since my youngest turned 20 on Sunday it certainly brought up a lot of memories for me. It seems just like yesterday that I was dropping my kids off at kindergarten and crying over them being so grown-up and going off into the world of school with their new clothes and lunch box in their hand.
The future is now for my children. One is 24 and in the Navy, the other is 20 and going to college. It's just as hard now watching them struggle with life decisions as it was when they started off in kindergarten and you wanted to teach them everything there is to know about life at the same time wanting to protect them. I don't know where the time goes and why it has to go by so fast, but it does. As much as you want them to stay young and cute and protect them at every turn, you also want to seem them soar on their own. That's the hardest part, watching and letting them make mistakes.
As for the kindergartner that I shadowed on Monday in the story, his mom informed us that he was very proud of the story in the newspaper. But on the second day of school he woke up and announced, "Today I don't think I can make it." Don't we all feel that way some days?
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