She's leaving me for Academia

So, G was lucky enough to be able to start at her new school this week (it's a magnet school and is supposed to be really great). And as excited as we are about this, I am having a bit of a hard time with it. Kindergarten is full day at her new school. After I dropped her off at her first day, I just drove around sobbing and listening to "Gracie" by ben folds (see sidebar music thingy) on repeat. It wasn't pretty.
I just realized that she is in full day school now and will be forever. After elementary, it's highschool, college, and then onto the white house. Full speed ahead is not really my ideal speed.
And secondly, I'm having to learn how to parent Bubba on my own without G's help. I know, yikes, right?
Thirdly, since I haven't made too many friends yet here in my new town, G is pretty much my bff. Now who's going to tell me when my outfit looks stupid? Or give me a funny look when someone at the library's crack is hanging out as they are leaning over to get a book off the bottom shelf? Bubba certainly isn't.
And most importantly, who's going to potty train Bubba? I was sort of counting on G to do it. I guess I can go ahead and forget about that.

One Happy Girl and One Sad Boy

G had her first day of kindergarten and it was exciting for us all. Except Bubba, he did not like it one bit.

This was little bubs after G went into the school building with her class. "No Sissy go school".

After school. Reunited and it feels so good.

Excellence

Recently, J achieved Excellence. (pictured). This Excellence was a result of an ‘Excellent’ score on his Praxis test that he had to take to become a teacher. Way to go J.
He seemed surprised by his Excellence. (I tried to capture said surprise in the photo, but apparently I’m not good at capturing emotion on film). It makes me sad to think that J doesn’t associate Excellence with himself. Because I’ve always felt that he possessed a good amount of Excellence. I like to do word associations (this is typically done with someone else administering the start word, and you then giving your word association to that word. But since I am alone, I will be giving and answering).
Rain…….Umbrella
Cow……..Hamburger
China…….Chinese Food
Jared…… Excellence
See, what I mean. For me, J and Excellence go hand in hand. If asked to describe him in 6 words, this is how it would go……
Ruggedly Handsome (1)
Funny
Relaxed
Hard-working (1)
Kind
Excellence
J, my advice to you is to embrace your inner Excellence. Especially now that you have a folder emblazoned with the title. You need to live up to your folder. I don’t think the people that gave you that folder would expect anything less from you.