Goodbye Preschool, Hello Kindergarten

Madison "graduated" from preschool last week. She suddenly seems so grown up. I'll be sending her to Kindergarten while my sister is sending her oldest daughter to College. While this stage is hard with the temper tantrums and all the hoopla over learning the alphabet (Kindergarten, not College) -- I know that the next stage of child rearing will offer its own set of worries and challenges, as will the one after that. I'm not ready to send Number Two off to the big world of Elementary School, just as I'm sure my sister is not ready to send hers off into the big world of Life. I guess at some point we just have to trust that their Angels will protect them and they'll always come back home in the end (but, you know, maybe just to visit).