One minute you’re buying school supplies and labeling water bottles, and somehow the next minute there are field day reminders, teacher gifts, class parties, yearbooks, graduation pictures, and a backpack full of mysterious papers that probably should have come home three months ago.

The end of the school year is exciting, but it’s also a lot.

Kids are tired.

Teachers are tired.

Parents are tired.

Even the lunchboxes are tired.

And in the middle of all that busyness, it’s easy to forget that the end of the school year is actually a pretty emotional little season.

It’s not just “school is over.”

It’s goodbye to a classroom.

Goodbye to a teacher.

Goodbye to a routine.

Sometimes goodbye to friends.

And for parents, it can feel like, “Wait… how did my child get this much older in ...