Who cries at Kindergarten testing???

Who cries at Kindergarten testing???

You would think my 5 year old son....

No, the answer to that would be his Mommy! LOL!

Chris and I took Aiden to his pre screen testing for kindergarten today. He will start in the fall and our school district does a pre screening on each child to determine where they are at developmentally. Ours was at 8:30 this morning, Aiden did fantastic. It was a little sad as I watched him get into his little single file line to head back to the "testing" room. He had two other kids from his daycare that were also there so I think it helped him having a few familar faces there.

The principal then had the parents go into another room where they went over what to expect when our children start school in August. It was very nice and completely organized. It also made me feel completely confident that Aiden is ready for school. I think we are excited as parents and he is also very excited which is most important! It's still hard watching your little baby grow up so fast!

After they went over all the information the principal put in a video about time and how precious time is in the eyes of a child. It showed a old man, widowed, going through an old box in his attic. They were playing the sappy music, and telling the story about how he never understood why his wife kept all these little things of his sons from when he was younger. He was looking at photo albums and stumbled across a journal that his son wrote when he was just 6 years old.

He took it down stairs and the old man had also kept his own journal for work at that time. He got out one of them and on each page after his work notes he would write a personal note. He found one day that read " Wasted the entire day fishing with Jimmy, didn't catch a thing." Then, he opened his son's journal to the same date and his entry read, " Spent the entire day fishing with Dad, it was the best day fo my life."

What a lesson........I just teared up it was so sweet and such a reminder of just how precious time is and especially through the eyes of a little child!

I felt a little embarrassed but, I think I saw another Mommy that teared up as well so at least I wasn't the only one! Then, I thought about it and I guess I shouldn't be embarrassed at all. The ones that need to be embarassed are the ones that didn't feel any emotion at all watching that video.