Over the past 5 years, I have thought a lot about what Tuesday would feel like. Tuesday was my baby's first day of kindergarten. I have shed a lot of tears thinking about that day, dreading that day, dreading that feeling of uselessness and loss. Even last week, I was feeling panicked that I'd not done all that I could as a mom to prepare him for school. Sad that I would loose my afternoon companion...what excuse would I have to nap after school started?
Tuesday came. It came with excitement, thrill, and joy. I guess when you worry about something for so long, when it finally gets here it doesn't have so much fear around it? I woke early on Tuesday, too excited to sleep, the boys too were up early for the same reason. I watched them walk into school, hand in hand. H was not scared, he had his brother with him. L was excited to show H "the ropes". It really was a great day. There were no tears that day.
Later that morning, I decided to run some errands. All I had to do was pick up my purse and leave. It was a strange feeling. There were no last minute bathroom runs, no shoes on wrong feet to correct,no goodbyes to say, and no fights to determine who got to open the door. Weird....and kind of exciting.
I still feel a bit helpless and I miss them. But that, as near as I can tell, is part and parcel of being a parent.
07 September 2011
02 September 2011
Open House
Okay...enough with the "woe is me" crap.....
Yesterday we went to the boys' open house, and met their teachers.
H is going to have the same kindergarten teacher that L had, hurray! She is amazing. On top of being an incredible teacher and partial to my kids, she is also a cancer survivor. In fact, she was getting regular chemo treatments while she taught L and still taught EVERY DAY. This is a woman who loves those children as her own.
L is so very excited about 2nd grade. For the first time, he has "a desk that is in a row!" He is thrilled, that the room decorations are animals, it "makes the room look like a jungle!" He also had a flip through his social studies book, and realized that "it's not going to be too hard after all."
I don't think they could be any more excited about Tuesday.
Chief came home early yesterday to come along, after he had been making fun of me all morning at work. You know, that I am going to be a weeping puddle on Tuesday, and that I was nervous about the open houses. But guess who had a "funny feeling in his stomach" when we dropped H off for the school tour? Not me........
After meeting the teachers, and seeing how excited the boys are, I am feeling a lot better. ALMOST looking forward to Tuesday, myself. We will see how Chief does.......
Yesterday we went to the boys' open house, and met their teachers.
H is going to have the same kindergarten teacher that L had, hurray! She is amazing. On top of being an incredible teacher and partial to my kids, she is also a cancer survivor. In fact, she was getting regular chemo treatments while she taught L and still taught EVERY DAY. This is a woman who loves those children as her own.
L is so very excited about 2nd grade. For the first time, he has "a desk that is in a row!" He is thrilled, that the room decorations are animals, it "makes the room look like a jungle!" He also had a flip through his social studies book, and realized that "it's not going to be too hard after all."
I don't think they could be any more excited about Tuesday.
Chief came home early yesterday to come along, after he had been making fun of me all morning at work. You know, that I am going to be a weeping puddle on Tuesday, and that I was nervous about the open houses. But guess who had a "funny feeling in his stomach" when we dropped H off for the school tour? Not me........
After meeting the teachers, and seeing how excited the boys are, I am feeling a lot better. ALMOST looking forward to Tuesday, myself. We will see how Chief does.......
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