To my amazing daughter,
We both kind of expected your first year of senior school to get off to a shaky start didn’t we? After all you didn’t know anyone at your new school and being as shy as you were we thought you would struggle a little until you found your feet.
I’ve never been so pleased to be wrong in my life!
You met a great group of girls on your first day and you’ve become firm friends with them all but even better than that, you’ve continued to make friends and you now have a huge amount of friends as your phone will testify to with it’s non stop beeping after school.
Your new school have been amazing and have gently pushed you out of your comfort zones, not only with the work you are doing but also with the things you do. Your confidence is now sky high and you’re blossoming into an amazing young lady.
To hear the teachers at parents night last week tell us that you were an outstanding all round student who was not only exceeding most targets but was also popular, kind and helpful made me so proud but the highlight of your school year for me came last night, when you told me something you did at school yesterday. You don’t even know how much it affected me but it really brought it home how much you had changed.
Last year in your last few days at primary school you felt sick at the thought of being one of the 10 people who had to stand up and clap at Pharell Williams ‘Happy’ but yesterday as part of a task at school, you stood up in front of your class and sang. On your own. And you just dropped it into the conversation like it was nothing and then wandered off to make a smoothie.
Remember the locket we bought you just before you started school that said ‘Be Brave Ever Day’? Well you have been and I could not be prouder.
Love you lots and lots and jelly tots,
Mam.
To my grown up boy,
I can’t believe you’re almost in Year 6!
Your school report and parents night yesterday were both awesome and you know that I’m never concerned with the levels you achieve (although it’s always great to hear you’re achieving more than expected) but to be told by your teacher that he can’t recall a single occasion in the past year that anyone has said a bad word about you is just brilliant.
He says that it’s a credit to your kind heart and your sweet nature and that it’s very rare that he can say this about a child he’s taught. Apparently you’re ‘quirky’ and ‘individual’ and an all round lovely child and that’s so brilliant to hear.
You need to work on your self confidence though and I hope that by reading your school report and hearing the comments of your teacher that you realise that you are awesome.
I couldn’t be prouder!
I look forward to the next year of school and hope more than anything that you continue to grow into the fine young man that you’re becoming!
Love you to the moon and back,
Mammy x
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This is such a lovely post, it gave me shivers. We have just had school reports out too and I am so happy that Nathan is loving school as well. Time is flying and although he is only going into year 5 in September, he is already asking to tour high schools! Scary stuff x
Ahhh, so lovely – we have had the reports here today and have the whole bursting with pride thing going on too. They will love looking back and reading this in the future x
Oh Cass! What a lovely post, I'm in floods of tears.I so need to write something like this about my kids.
I had goosepums reading your post today and i might confess even a tear in my eye. The way you write about your kids it is so lovely and it was like you were just sitting in front of me telling me how proud you are. It is so nice to see how confident your daughter grow up to be and that your son has such a warm. Well they take it after their mum. how else they could be? xxx
Oh lord you just made me cry! So happy for you and your family. I need to give that locket to my girl too!
You must be so pleased that you with what you thought was best for Miss Frugal last year. It's lovely to hear she's doing so incredibly well x
absolutely wonderful to read cass
Ahh your children sound divine and so great that they are thriving in their schools. Well done on some ace parenting proud mammy. Mich xx
I love this post. It is so lovely to hear you speak so proudly and candidly about your children and their achievements. And so you should x
You have lovely kids, I enjoy your blog but this post made me cry . You deserve to be proud.
So lovely to hear that the past school year has gone well for them both. It's always nice to hear about children who are enjoying school.