When Lorelai walked out of school on Friday I could tell something was amiss. Her head was hung low and she was lacking that school's-out-for-the-summer sparkle that I was expecting. In fact, she looked much like she did on the first day of school last Fall - the day after she broke her arm (boy, oh boy was she out of sorts!).
But this time her sorrow was because she didn't want school to end.
"Summer's too long," she said.
Luckily, Alexandra was there to wrap her arms around her and offer some sisterly advice - how's she's been there before and how it will be okay, and how exciting it was that she was a 1st grader now-
- but the tears came anyway.
