Today my youngest child graduated →[More:]from preschool. It was such a sweet ceremony. The kids wore royal blue caps and gowns. Two high-schoolers played "Pomp and Circumstance" on the piano and the flute.

The kids sang "You are My Sunshine" and "The World is a Rainbow", which always makes me cry, along with some other cute songs. We had cookies and punch afterward with the other parents and mingled a bit.

As we left I felt the preschool I felt a little sad. We would no longer be going to this preschool. We've been there for four years between two kids.

Tonight I went to Barnes and Noble to browse around and buy my eldest son's teacher a gift card (his last day of school is tomorrow). I was feeling lonely and sad and glancing around for somebody I knew. By chance I hoped I would see someone I knew from school so we could talk about today's graduation and how kids, they grow so quickly. I didn't bump into anyone I knew.

Have you ever had that lonely, desperate feeling? To see somebody you know to talk or just get your mind off things? And everything you look at seems trivial and ridiculous? I was in the fiction section and most every title and book description seemed silly or shallow.

There were parents at school that I would have liked to know better but never reached out to in a significant way. I won't see most of these parents in the future because our kids go to different schools.

I feel a little sad that these two preschool years have zoomed by for my youngest son and I didn't really cherish them like I should have. I was kind of absent.

This is incredibly uninteresting and I probably shouldn't post such boring things, but typing it out helps me I think. I'll be over this melancholy mood in a couple days, or less. For now, I feel a little wistful.