5th grade promotion......

ok, so our daughter was promoted to the 6th grade today......which means that we have at least 7 more years of hands-on parenting left before our nest is empty........this event was idyllic in many ways.......my spouse and i walked there......in itself a rarity in all but small-town america....and as we walked a former classmate of acw's at montessori/dhs soccer ran across the street from the bakery to say hello and to say that he would be in the bike shop later on to get some parts, and to let us know that he has spent the year in jackson,wyoming working and mountain biking.......and, as we discovered, he almost worked at my favorite jackson restaurant....thai me up.......so we went to the promotion.....and cayle looked just fine considering that she has shoved her choice of dress into a kroger bag along with her shoes before leaving the house........it made no sense to ask her to take it on a hanger once it was already in the bag........the 'grads' camei in to the elementary gym to pomp and circumstance......and then we sang my old kentucky home.......and the students then sang the jenny rogers elementary school song.......and then cayle read her personal essay about her time at jenny rogers.......well. she was among 6 who reads their personal narrative.......and i was so pleased that she left out the part that she left montessori because she didn't fit in and couldn't figure it out.........and that her second grade teacher asked us why we were not medicating her........and the part about her having 3-4 women she calls mom........thankfully, she kept her remarks to the 1000 pound pig owned by the teacher she had last year.......such are the blessings of life...........