It's the End of the World As We Know It

And we don't feel fine. I wish we could say we feel fine. Emotions are simmering. They are not boiling over yet, but emotions have heated up. The impending doom has the littles on edge. Melt downs and attitudes have made an appearance where once there were none. One is venturing out and the other is being left behind. Our life, as we know it, is ending in five days. 

How could a commitment of three hours a day, five days a week have turned our lives upside down? It's half day kindergarten and it's taking away our freedom. Our freedom to get up when we naturally wake up and as night owls that would never been before school starts. Our freedom to decide when and where we go. Our freedom to decide and stick to our own schedule. Our freedom to take vacations on a whim. Whimsy will leave our lives in five days. Whimsy has been a defining word for our last year. We finally gained our freedom to decide our life a year ago. A year later, freedom is leaving our possession. I am a fan of whimsy. I find myself wondering if I will always be looking and longing for the days of whimsy to return. 

I am sure there will be good aspects of a schedule and the change coming to our lives. Until the change comes and we adjust to the dreaded change, it seems just that, dreadful. Goodbye whimsy. It's been a good, rather great year. And for now in my head, school is a four letter word.