When did this happen?

No art to post today...I'm working on a couple of cards for the Caardvarks Sticker Shock Challenge, but don't want to post them until they're finished. What I do want to say is this. I am not a mom...in the sense that I have never had babies, myself. I have played mom many times in my life. I was a daycare teacher for 3 years, which was one of the most exhilerating, exhausting, meaningful times of my life, I have many many MANY kids that call me Aunt Mary (even though only 2 of them are so far ACTUALLY the children of my siblings, with 2 more on the way...)

So on Wednesday, I put 2 of these little darlings on the bus...

Morgan, my boyfriend's daughter...is starting Kindergarten...she's excited to be going, we're excited but a little apprehensive about full-days and how she's going to deal with that...we'll see. Doesn't she look happy? And, by the way, she wouldn't have cared if it was 10 degrees and a blizzard outside, she was WEARING that Hello Kitty tanktop and pink skirt...you can't tell, but that Kitty is all sparkly...we have a princess in the making, folks...I might have to hide that outfit when winter comes.

THEN, I went to pick up my nephew to take him out to breakfast. Joshua is the love of my life, I pretty much raised him for the first year and a half of his life while my sister finished school, and have maintained a very close relationship with him...and on Wednesday, after breakfast, I took him to Aunt Perrin's house and PUT HIM ON THE BUS TO PRE-K!! This was a tough moment...he was too big, too proud of himself...didn't cling or sniffle or get nervous...just climbed right up the steps. And then had the nerve to give me a smile and a wave through the window...not a single tear in his eye...darn kids just can't give you an inch, can they??