First Day Jitters

~VALERIE POV~

{Three Weeks Later}

The morning sunlight spilled across the kitchen tiles, bright and far too cheerful for the mood of the little boy sitting across from me.

His arms were crossed tight across his chest, his cheeks puffed out in stubborn protest, and his lower lip was doing that wobble that always made me want to laugh and hug him at the same time.

It was Leo’s first day of kindergar