Kindergarten!
Andy boarded the kindergarten bus without a single glance backwards. We waved pointlessly in his general direction as the bus rode off, but he was too busy beginning his new life as a big man about campus to bother to look our way. That's it. Armed with a bag of Teddy Grahams that I carefully pre-cut open for him (just a little snip to get you started, son) and the confidence of someone who has never truly been told no, he was completely ready to get the day going. Later, he would act annoyed by my thousand questions, but the answers were so deeply unsatisfying that I could barely stand it. What do you mean, you didn't make any new friends? How can you not remember what you did all day? Did you miss me at all? You didn't miss me AT ALL? People warned me about the first weeks of full day kindergarten. They said: He will come home and be so very exhausted. False. He comes home and begs to go the playground. He will be too ...