Gasp! Grade one looms near!

I've been prone lately to some sadness over Malia entering grade one in the fall.  I have had the same feelings with all of them.  Once grade one hits so many hours are spent away from home and I no longer will know almost everything about her day.  There are the worries over will she have friends, will the teachers understand her idiosyncrasies and know that her outbursts are still disability not those of a bratty child?  My concerns are endless and don't get me started on the transportation to school!  No one has ever driven the child but me and now I am to entrust her to a stranger!  Oh the humanity!

All that being said...when we have shopping days like today.... I can see some advantages....