The first day of school was a success! She loves her teacher. Her teacher is very wise – and her mommy likes that.

Mommy, by the way, cried all the way to the car. Actually, I woke up at 5:45 am (an hour before the alarm) and started thinking about that old song “Turn Around”. Do you remember it?

Where are you going, my little one, little one?
Where are you going, my baby, my own?
Turn around and you’re 2,
Turn around and you’re 4,
Turn around and you’re a young girl going out of the door.

And I started crying then. So I knew I was in for it, although I tried to convince myself I was getting it out early. Ha!

LG woke up well before the alarm went off. She was very! ex! cited!

We dropped her off and then Mike and I ran home so he could head off to work and I could head off to meet my friend at the donut shop. Yummy donut! Good conversation! Then back home with not nearly enough time to spare before I had to turn around and go get her. So, needless to say I didn’t get much done this morning. I did make her a very special lunch. (Ham pinweels with cream cheese on sun roasted tomato tortillas – they were a hit.) But that’s pretty much all I did that was actually productive.

Then I went to pick her up and when she saw me, she started crying, which sort of freaked me out for a minute, but she said they were “happy tears”. My little ball of emotion! She said she had a great day and she loved her teacher. Friday, after meet the teacher, she said she liked her a “little” because she didn’t know her very well yet. But today, she said she liked her a “lot” because she was able to spend so much more time with her. Cracked me up.

We came home and she had her lunch which she proclaimed “delicious”. And then we did a little bit of “home school”. Since she’s only going to half-day kindergarten, she’s not getting all the extra activities the full-day kids get, so we’re doing them at home. Today we did a little science, a little art and a little religion. (No, they don’t get religion at her school, but she got it at preschool, so I thought it would be cool to continue that.) She said we didn’t do enough “home school”. Alrighty then!

Then I got a hankering for cupcakes and on a whim, I googled cupcakes and a nearby neighborhood. I wasn’t really expecting to find anything because all the cupcake stores in the Valley seem to be in Scottsdale, where we are not. But lo and behold! A new cupcake store has opened at our local mall! They’ve been there a few months, but this is the first I’ve heard of them because I really do not go to the mall very often. (If you told 16 year old Karin that she would rarely go to the mall 30+ years later, she’d probably have thrown herself to the ground in abject horror, but there it is.) Anyway, I decided to treat a little girl (and myself since I was the one having the craving after all) to a cupcake! We ended up getting four cupcakes (they were 4 for $12 and that’s about $1 discount, so they are not at all cheap, but they’re HUGE) and they were absolutely…DELICIOUS! Seriously. They were yummmmy city. And while I would normally feel guilty about having a donut AND a cupcake the same day? I figured that I deserved it today after having to send my baby off to kindergarten!! Anyway, I wish I’d photographed them, but well, I didn’t. Next time I will. We got four different flavors and they were all yummy. They are nice and moist (which is my gripe with Sprinkles – they are on the dry side) and the buttercream is decadent (a teeny bit on the sweet side, but I’m okay with that). Oh! The name? Sugar Daddy Cupcakes! Go visit them if you live on the west side of the Valley. Yum yum yum!

And that…was my day. How about you? :)

Oh! I almost forgot! Little Miss Kindergartener herself: