Comments on: From Beaches to Backpacks https://www.bonbonbreak.com/from-beaches-to-backpacks/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-beaches-to-backpacks Simplify. Inspire. Connect. Sat, 13 Aug 2016 23:39:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: A Good Cause, Clubhouse, Before Kids and Falling Leaves | Bonbon Break https://www.bonbonbreak.com/from-beaches-to-backpacks/#comment-1330 Sun, 23 Sep 2012 16:53:46 +0000 https://www.bonbonbreak.com/?p=2369#comment-1330 […] FROM BEACHES TO BACKPACKS ::: Musing Momma […]

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]]> By: thegirlfriendmom https://www.bonbonbreak.com/from-beaches-to-backpacks/#comment-903 Sat, 01 Sep 2012 11:31:48 +0000 https://www.bonbonbreak.com/?p=2369#comment-903 Great post Ellie. Unfortunately I don’t have the experience of sending a little one off to school or holding them in my lap on a beach. I do remember my own time as a kid at the beach with my sibling, which was the only time we DID get along, and my parents. It was always such a serene and magical time. Thank you for bringing me back.

]]> By: Ellie {Musing Momma} https://www.bonbonbreak.com/from-beaches-to-backpacks/#comment-902 Sat, 01 Sep 2012 03:40:57 +0000 https://www.bonbonbreak.com/?p=2369#comment-902 In reply to Kathy Radigan.

It was my pleasure, Kathy! Thank you so much for letting me share. I hope your kids have a wonderful school year – and you too!

]]> By: Ellie {Musing Momma} https://www.bonbonbreak.com/from-beaches-to-backpacks/#comment-901 Sat, 01 Sep 2012 03:39:59 +0000 https://www.bonbonbreak.com/?p=2369#comment-901 In reply to Linda @ it all started with paint.

Linda, thank you so much for your kind comment! Wow – putting a kiddo on the “L”…now that would be a big step! I hope your son has a great school year. Time flies, doesn’t it?

]]> By: Linda @ it all started with paint https://www.bonbonbreak.com/from-beaches-to-backpacks/#comment-837 Mon, 27 Aug 2012 23:41:57 +0000 https://www.bonbonbreak.com/?p=2369#comment-837 Ellie,

How sweet and touching and you brought a tear to my eye! I remember those days so well. Not that my kids are out of school. Nope, just older. Old hats at this routine. Though I must admit sending my 14 year old out on his own to take the “L” to his high school in downtown Chicago was a harrowing experience … one of the most stressful days of my life … and now, as he approaches Sophomore year, it’s already old hat too!

Keep the tissues at the ready. I remember Kindergarten being a year filled with tears. Scary tears. Proud tears. How just too cute they all are at assembly tears. Seeing friendships being forged in earnest tears. My son to this day is still best friends with a number of kids he met on that very first day of Kindergarten …

Sorry for this novel of a comment. Clearly you struck a chord in me …

… oh, and so proud to be a fellow Bonbon Break original contributor this week!

🙂

Linda

]]> By: Justine https://www.bonbonbreak.com/from-beaches-to-backpacks/#comment-829 Mon, 27 Aug 2012 23:28:01 +0000 https://www.bonbonbreak.com/?p=2369#comment-829 What a lovely description of the transition in seasons of the year and seasons of life … so interesting how those things intersect, isn’t it? We have to be as brave as they do. 🙂

]]> By: Kristin Hackman https://www.bonbonbreak.com/from-beaches-to-backpacks/#comment-816 Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:31:17 +0000 https://www.bonbonbreak.com/?p=2369#comment-816 “To wonder who they will become, who you will meet next, knowing that whoever it is you already love him in the deepest, oldest part of your soul?” — I LOVE this.

I feel this way with each passing month as I get to know the layers of the little warm bodies that used to just mold onto my chest … such true words!!

Thank you for your perspective – it is true and beautiful! And Fall…yes Fall… bring it on!!

Cheers to Changes!

]]> By: Dana https://www.bonbonbreak.com/from-beaches-to-backpacks/#comment-815 Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:07:34 +0000 https://www.bonbonbreak.com/?p=2369#comment-815 Love this piece (well, I must admit I ALWAYS love Ellie’s writing!)…
So amazing to share with another mom the bittersweet moments of your children growing up.

]]> By: Kathy Radigan https://www.bonbonbreak.com/from-beaches-to-backpacks/#comment-806 Mon, 27 Aug 2012 04:53:45 +0000 https://www.bonbonbreak.com/?p=2369#comment-806 Ellie, thank you for writing this great article for us! I too have always felt a mix of excitement, fear, joy and sadness as each of my babies went to kindergarten for the first time. Now I have a second grader, fourth graders and, gulp, eighth grader. Where does the time go! Wishing both your boys a great year and lots of new friends and experiences.

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