Summer School

Nice moms let their children stay home all summer and do whatever they want.  And why not, they deserve it right?  Mean moms sign their kids up for summer school - not because they need it but because it will further their learning.  Or maybe that's the beginnings of an American Tiger mom (or the discovery that there is a Southern version of one...) 

Holly is attending an enrichment program this summer at her school.  It focuses on language arts and mathematics and is a 2nd/3rd grade level program.  The idea is not for her to ace it, but to push her learning and bring her up a few notches.  (see Tiger mom....)

But the program is not the focus of this post...  The focus is the picture below of day three when I let her walk in by herself.   

Yep...  that's Holly, skipping away from me to the door of school.  She kissed and hugged me goodbye, got out of the car, and just be-bopped her way to school.  Just.like.that.   A part of me is so proud of her that she can get to her classroom and not be distracted by something shiny and sparkly, but the other part of me died a little bit because she's not my little girl anymore. 

*sigh*