I have no words for this tonight. I am just simply in awe. My first baby finishing her first year of school. She has grown into a little girl. She was pushed to learn more than every generation before her (thanks to the vile tentacles of Common Core). Despite the intense pressure to learn developmentally inappropriate standards that are far beyond her cognitive years she has persevered. Not with out struggle, but still, she did it. And saying I'm proud of my artistic, inquisitive, sensitive, nurturing little angel is nothing less than an understatement.