Tonight's Required Reading

Our bedtime story tonight was Nancy Carlson's Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come! It's a sweet little story about a giant mouse named Henry who wears blue pants and red shoes. I did some editing as I read, skipping the part where Henry, after showing boundless enthusiasm, bursts into tears at the door to his classroom and exclaims, "I want to go home." (I think my on-the-fly rewriting went something along the lines of, "This place looks great!") The daughter has been so excited about kindergarten, I don't think she's the slightest bit anxious about tomorrow morning. And it finally dawned on my earlier this week that I needed to stop asking her if she was nervous because I was afraid I was going to single-handedly make her think she had something to be nervous about. As it stands, she's already sound asleep. Here's to a quiet night and an eventful morning.