new beginnings

it is foggy now, the extra cold summer has spilled seemlessly into fall . no change in leaves here, just the ever so slight shift of the sun, the tilt of the earth. i wonder what winter will be like. if the sun will ever come out.
we are at a new house, a new school, another beginning. i walk to pick my children up from school and stay a little longer talking to the moms. trying to set an example to my kids, 'see making new friends isn't that hard'. i think of all the new schools i went to growing up. too many to count. i don't tell them how much i hated making new friends as a kid.
my little girl starts to run away from another little girl on the playground. they are both laughing.
suddenly my daughter stops, and opens her arms.
they hug.
it seems new beginnings have begun.