It's Getting Emotional

Here I have been thinking this ending my career - this year of "lasts" was gonna be a snap!!  I have been virtually galloping towards the end of the year - towards my retirement gleefully.

Except................. 

I have hit a couple of lasts that have brought tears to my eyes.

The first was last Friday  - our Kindergarten registration day.  I LOVE Kindergarten registration day.  I do my song and dance routine - wow the parents - cuddle the kids - and dream of September when I get to know them all better.  

Except - this last registration - as I finished off my song and dance - I realized (or maybe I should say it hit me upside the head) that I wouldn't get to know the parents better - wouldn't get to play with the kiddies - this was IT!  the end!! and the tears burned the back of my eyes)

And then the girls from work took me out for lunch (before my train) and I was thinking "I can do this" last lunch with the girls.... easy peasy. 

Except when they gave me my gift.  A lot of thought went into my gift.  They reaized I don't need more "stuff" - hell I am whittling down my "stuff" to meld with W's stuff.  So they presented me with a spa bathrobe........ a beautiful thick long white spa robe.  But it was more.......... a private joke between them and me............ Ya see this year when things don't go well - or someone asks me about next year - I have started using the phrase "Bite me" ......... when I opened up the robe - to the yells and cat calls from the girls to "put it on .. put it on" (funny I always thought it was "take it off - take it off") but I digress.... I opened up the robe and embroidered across the chest were these words: 

 

  It was PERFECT!!

The tears burned the back of my eyes again........... and I could say (in my thank you/goodbye speech)  that I honestly couldn't think of a better way to end my career but with this wonderful team of women.