A Lot of Crying

Well, now that school has officially ended and the graduation from elementary has really sunk in for Julia, we've had a lot of emotions running rampant.  Well, perhaps not a lot of emotions, but instead, lots of ONE emotion: sadness. 

Here is a list of the things Julia has hysterically sobbed about in the past 24 hours:

-Elementary school is over.  It's gone.  She'll never be in elementary school again
-One of her friends will be at sleep-away camp for the whole summer and EVERYONE IS LEAVING
-Another of her friends will be in Maine for half the summer and EVERYONE IS LEAVING
-Another of her friends will be in Hawaii for a few weeks this summer and EVERYONE IS LEAVING
-Two of her friends from swim team are moving to India and she'll never talk to them again and EVERYONE IS LEAVING
-Auntie Shannon will be LEAVING us when she takes her job in Chicago next year and EVERYONE IS LEAVING
-She misses her fifth grade teacher.  She doesn't WANT new teachers in middle school
-She was too hot sitting in Auntie Shannon's rental car and she was afraid she was going to die and then to make things more histrionic, she set the car alarm off, so then she was REALLY sure of her own doom


(Because we know there had to be at least ONE irrational thing to sob about on that list, right?)


It ain't easy being a rising middle-schooler.  My heart hurts for Julia, but I also know that she really is going to be okay.  I wonder if Lilly Mintz can give her a few pointers on entering middle school, since Lilly Mintz is basically Julia, just four years older and wiser!