December 18th, 2008 by nicky

Kinder Kid by Nicky P

Finn had his last day at kinder today.

I wasn’t really sad or wistful about it. Just a little surprised to see the kinder rooms looking so bare and to think that I won’t be seeing these people day in, day out anymore. We have final Christmas party tomorrow so I will try to get around to doing some Christmas cards tonight and prepare myself for some (not me) to get a bit teary.

He had his last swimming lesson for the year this afternoon (we’ve just arrived home from it). Again no wistfulness, rather a sudden realisation that this year really is drawing to a close and in just 6 weeks my little boy will be starting school.

It seems unimaginable that he’s grown so much in just five years, but I suppose that is the way of things. Someone suggested to me the other day that perhaps I was being a bit disingenuous when I said that I won’t cry when Finn starts school. At the time I was completely sure that I wouldn’t – I’ve just been so excited about the prospect of him going on to school and absorbed by the details around his special needs that it hadn’t occurred to me to be sad. After today, though, I can see a distinct possibility that there will be tears on that day in February.