An Empty Nest

I dropped Aubrey off for her first day of preschool as a 4-year old today! She was pretty excited and happy to go. It is much easier to say good-bye when they are excited to be going. I will have 3 afternoons without them this year. I know it won't take long for that time to fill up (especially as I will work one of the afternoons in Taylor's class), but I am taking it easy on myself today: no working out (ok that one was easy to give up), no cleaning, no grocery shopping, no phone calls. I am just going to sit back and do something I don't let myself do very often - curl up with a good book on a rainy day (Sara you and your obsession with Harry Potter has fired me up to finish the series I am on book 5). It is a perfect day to do that for sure. I have to admit the house is awfully quiet and it will take some getting used to. It seems like only yesterday they were both babies in diapers - where did that time go?