Alexia’s Journey

I was watching my girl today come off her bus after school, and she was BEAMING. This is a HUGE piece of #rare parenting (for me at least) that so much is so hard, that when it isn’t you take notice somehow more profoundly. Today she was beaming for several reasons, first- she was rolling into the arms of Grandma Cindi and Grandpa Pete, who she had been anticipating for many days. Second, she was beaming because of the two wonderful ladies in the back of the photo below. School is fun for her, and she’s making new friends, but school, (and especially a new school) is HARD too. The bus starts and ends each fun/hard day and these ladies are the “bookends” to those days, making her laugh when she’s “down”, giving her fruit snacks for Max, or letting her doze off on the way home. They love my baby and I can tell.