What an Emotional Week I’m Having, Y’all

I don’t know who decided it was acceptable for motherhood to cram all the feelings into one single week, but whew… somebody could’ve at least brought me a casserole and a family-size bag of chocolate.

This week, I watched one daughter close the chapter on 1st grade… while the other stood at the edge of Kindergarten. And my mama heart has basically been one giant puddle ever since.

Earlier this week, I sat in the preschool carpool line realizing Jenna was about to leave the little building that’s been part of our lives for five whole years. FIVE. YEARS.

It’s where tiny bookbags and nervous drop-offs slowly turned into confidence, friendships, inside jokes, and teachers who loved my girls like their own. It became part of our family story.

And now my blonde-haired baby with the giant feelings and even bigger heart is headed to Kindergarten. Public school. Full days. Cafeteria noise. Big hallways. Multiple teachers.

Excuse me while I ugly cry into my Chick-fil-A frosted coffee.

Then this morning, just to really finish me off emotionally, we did Jessica’s last day of 1st grade pictures in the driveway.

Quick pictures, of course. Because apparently once children hit elementary school, they suddenly become very busy professionals with schedules to keep.

She was already anxious to start walking to school, giving me the classic:
“Mommmm… hurry.”

After a quick “Bye!” over her shoulder, I stood there watching her walk down the driveway with her dad — sneakers scuffing the pavement, looking somehow so tiny and so grown-up at the exact same time.

And it hit me like a ton of bricks: When she walks back through that door this afternoon… she won’t be a 1st grader anymore.

I mean… HOW?

Wasn’t she just learning how to hold a pencil yesterday? Wasn’t Jenna just starting preschool?

Motherhood is sneaky like that. You spend so much time surviving the daily chaos — packing lunches, signing folders, finding missing shoes, reminding children to flush toilets and stop licking random things — that you don’t realize entire seasons are slipping quietly past you.

And this week has reminded me that the “big moments” aren’t always the ceremonies or milestones we expect.

Sometimes it’s:

• the last preschool pickup

• the quick driveway photo

• the little hand letting go easier than it used to

• the child walking ahead without needing you quite as much

Those are the moments that get you.

So yes… this week has been emotional.
Beautiful.
Bittersweet.
Tender.
Exhausting.

And if you’re standing in your driveway lately trying not to cry while your babies walk toward the next version of themselves… you’re not alone, mama.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to stare at old preschool pictures for an unhealthy amount of time and pretend I’m not already panicking about 2nd grade and Kindergarten starting in August. 💛

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