A little extra room in the nest today...

I know I'm still a ways off from truly having an empty nest, but today I'm getting a melancholy glimpse into how it might feel. Yes, I'm looking forward to 2 1/2 hours all to myself, but just for today I'm a little sad to see my baby take this step. Today is Jenna's first day at preschool. She will have "Miss Amee," the same wonderful teacher that Sarah had. This morning, I pulled out one of Sarah's pink backpacks, but she said, "That's not my backpack!" I know, I'm a sucker and she's my baby so off to Target we went for her to pick out her very own backpack. (it doesn't take much to get me to Target) I can tell she is excited...she's been ready to go since 9:30 this morning...school starts at 12:30! She's watched all the others head off to school and I know she is thrilled that it's finally her turn. I had to chuckle, when I took her to the front porch of the traditional first-day-of-school photo she knew exactly what to do. As we were driving in the car, she knew she was going to school and instinctively started singing her ABC's. Between her small size and the large size of the backpack, she had to carefully crawl do the steps to keep her balance. Sadly, it will be no time at all before her size catches up with her backpack. As soon as we got inside she began to explore and had no problem telling me goodbye!