“If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. ” ~Edgar W. Howe

I just cracked up when I read that quote! As a stay-at-home, work-at-home, working Mom, I can absolutely relate to that! Sure, there is a small part of me that is very sad to see my daughter go to school and be influenced by others, and become more independent, but in the words of Mitch Hedberg, “If the (I’m sad my kid’s going to Kindergarten feeling) was represented in a pie chart graph, it would be as small as the slice of pie that shows ‘If I won the lottery, I’d give it all to charity’!” Yes, she’s getting grown up, yes she is not going to have me as the center of her world, but let’s be real here- when she screams at me “I hate you, stupid dork jackass!” from accross the backyard at me when I’m on the phone with my Mom, because I took away the Sharpie that she was using to grafitti the side of our (rented) home- I’m not feeling held real high in my daughter’s rank of things that are important to her!