{"id":867,"date":"2008-05-29T14:21:47","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T18:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2008\/05\/first-last-day-of-school\/"},"modified":"2008-05-29T14:21:47","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T18:21:47","slug":"first-last-day-of-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2008\/05\/first-last-day-of-school\/","title":{"rendered":"(First) Last Day of School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was Carrie&#8217;s last day of preschool (well, until the fall) and they had a little end-of-year celebration.  This song, sung to the tune of &#8220;I&#8217;ve Been Working on the Railroad&#8221; was darn cute:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We&#8217;ve been having fun in preschool, learning all year long<br \/>\nWe can tell you all about it, just listen to this song<br \/>\nWe learned all our shapes and colors, letters and numbers, too<br \/>\nWe learned how to share with others, now our year is through.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was even cuter the other night when Carrie sang it for us after dinner.  She literally stood up and pressed her arm into her stomach, and with more breath control than your average opera singer belted it out at the top of her lungs.  Seriously, I have never heard her sing like that, and I wish I&#8217;d had the video camera handy (especially when she belched halfway through and kept on going like nothing happened!)<\/p>\n<p><center><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/images\/carolyn\/20080529_lastday_school.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"445\" alt=\"20080529_lastday_school.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nI have to admit that I shed a few tears this morning, especially when we picked up her things after and there was a folder of her work with her tiny handprint and the poem &#8220;This is the hand you used to hold when I was only three years old&#8221; on it.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, I&#8217;m aware that if I&#8217;m weepy over a year of preschool being over I&#8217;m going to be a complete basket case in 15 years when she walks across the stage in her cap and gown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was Carrie&#8217;s last day of preschool (well, until the fall) and they had a little end-of-year celebration. This song, sung to the tune of &#8220;I&#8217;ve Been Working on the Railroad&#8221; was darn cute: We&#8217;ve been having fun in preschool,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carolyn-milestones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}