The Glee alum received several lasting ovations for her archetypal show arsenic Fanny Brice connected Sept. 6. As chill arsenic that is, determination was different large milestone successful her household that day. On the aforesaid time she stepped into her coveted role, she star packed a toddler sized backpack and sent her lad Ever disconnected to his first time of pre-school. 

In an Instagram Story marking the occasion, Michele wrote, "I cried arsenic I tied your small shoes this morning. I consciousness similar conscionable yesterday you were born. And present you person your archetypal time of small school. I'm your mama earlier thing ever and I emotion you." 

Michele shares Ever with her hubby of 3 years, businessman Zandy Reich.

Motherhood is the relation Michele was calved to play, she revealed to E! successful an exclusive interview in April, "Motherhood is beautiful, it's intense, it's hard. It's the top happening I've ever done," she shared.

She added, "[Ever] doesn't telephone maine ‘mama' anymore. Now helium conscionable calls maine ‘mom,' and I'm like, ‘How did this happen?' And implicit the show this greeting astatine 7 a.m. I conscionable hear, ‘Mom, mom, mom, mom?' I'm like, ‘Oh my god, I person a 4-year-old.'"

Michele sat down for an interrogation with Drew Barrymore on Sept. 21 and spoke astir however her matrimony and motherhood person grounded her. "I conscionable couldn't spot things clearly," she said connected The Drew Barrymore Show. "It was each astir my career, you know, I had been truthful career-focused my full life. I deliberation to a fault. I deliberation that I had conscionable this consciousness of thrust that created a batch of unsighted spots for maine successful my life."