Today marks the first day of the school year. These two champs were up early, all ready and raring to go. Grace begins her first year of high school - Year 7. Nathan starts his first year of upper high school - Year 10. After breakfast, we piled into the car and headed to the train station so I could drop everyone off, with hubby choosing to catch the train into the office to accompany Grace on her maiden commute to school. At the station drop off, I watched three backpack-laden figures walk away toward the station entrance. And I was filled with an unexplained wistfulness. It was a moment that held both an ending and a beginning The turning of another page of childhood. The beginning of a new chapter.