My daughter started to kindergarten yesterday. My wife cried.

Bless her heart, we went to eat Mexican yesterday evening (my daughter's request) to celebrate 1st day of school. She had a little handprint of her hand on a poem printed out by the teacher about trusting our daughter to her. Sweet poem. My wife sat there with tears rolling down her cheeks in the mall where the restaurant is. I finally told her, "Look, you're gonna have to stop this or you'll get me started."

She was super excited about it, though, my daughter was. She came bounding out of the building: "Daddy, school is AWESOME!"

We've been doing phonics lessons all summer, and she's reading pretty well for what she's learned. Good thing about this school, though, is the small classes. There's her and 6 other kids. We'll take that.

Human government bears the same relation to hell as the church bears to heaven. (David Lipscomb, On Civil Government, 72).