Today, I took you to school for the first time. I was nervous about how you would do. Would you protest when I tried to leave without you? Would you cry when I was no longer in your eyesight? Will you make friends, be kind, and always try your best? (Spoiler alert: you did great!)
The thought of sending you off into the world is crushing. But each moment since we brought you home has inched us closer and closer to this. From here on out you will need me less than you did the day before. But I know you’re ready, even if I’m not. After spending every day together for the last three years, what parent could ever truly be ready for this?
I’ve learned that while you may feel like you’re mine, the truth is that you never really were. You are meant to be shared with the world, to be your own unique person with dreams that far exceed any dreams I could ever possibly have for you.
So on this day as I leave you in a classroom for the very first time, I promise you I will always be your home base. I will always be in your corner. And I will always believe in you.
Loving you is the easiest thing in the world.
