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Post by scimomma on Sept 2, 2018 23:25:27 GMT -6
His allergies are wearing on him hard this week. We need a few days of good rain to knock everything out of the air. QOTW: He really, really wants a puppy. Poor kiddo! I can't imagine having allergies so young. Is he allergic to dogs too? |
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Post by scimomma on Sept 2, 2018 23:45:05 GMT -6
So I go here now but it looks like there aren't very many of us left from around the time we were all having our kiddos together. I know life got busy!! We started kindergarten this year and, other than going back to work after maternity leave, this has been the most difficult and most emotional transition. I think it's been hardest for me. Some of it is our schedule and I feel like I'm taking the brunt of it trying to balance work, a husband in school, and now a little one in school and getting everyone transported where they need to be while still fulfilling my job duties. So I came back here hoping to reconnect and see how everyone else is handling this. When she was born I thought no way I was going to let her go to K this year, if just for the fact that I feel cheated out of a year of life with her since she just barely made the cutoff to start kinder. I am sure that a lot of this has to do with the fact that I always thought we'd have more kids and it didn't happen so every moment is the first or the last time we're going to do something.
At any rate, she is so ready intellectually to go to school but the adjustments have been tough. For one, I was going to gradually take her off of her naps over the summer but she was always so tired when I did we just decided to let her have her nap time and she'll have to adjust when school starts. She loves school and is doing very well. But the first day she fell asleep an hour after we got home. We tried to get her up for dinner and couldn't get her up. It's gradually improving but she's still very tired at night. She's also not eating her lunch at school as much as she used to, but they are more on their own than in preschool. This is not to say someone isn't there helping but it's not the same. I went and had lunch with her this week to check it out and we are working with her on it. I know nothing we are going through is outside of the realm of normal. It's something that's totally part of it but I guess for me it's just come way too soon. I'm not ready for this, for her to be a school aged kid. I'm a teacher and I marvel at how fast a school year goes. I'm not ready to start counting down the years and I'm getting too emotional.
She goes to school less than a mile away from where I teach. A couple of mornings I have to take her to a before school program. We thought they had it at her school and were stunned to find out that I would have to drop her off at a different school and they would bus my 5 year old to her school. No seatbelt. No bus aide. No one to personally be sure that she was getting off the bus and to her classroom. I threw a major fit because it's not what I understood from phone calls prior to the first drop off. I refused to drop her off the first day and brought her to the office at her school and demanded a meeting with the principal. He is a good principal and we talked for about 30 minutes until I felt like there was enough in place that I knew she wasn't going to be in any danger of walking off somewhere or not knowing what to do if she couldn't figure it out. They were very helpful at her school and I am very glad I had that meeting because prior to that it seemed like there was a disconnect in information and procedure. I still hate that she's on a school bus. Incidentally she loves it. She goes back and forth between saying she can't wait to go to school and how she hates leaving because she misses me. Then there was the first fire drill this week and that scared her but we're talking through that. Basically it's been a big, emotional roller coaster and, as a teacher, I really wasn't quite expecting all of this. I thought I had it covered and knew what was coming. I do teach the higher grades though.
Anyway, I don't know if I'm just holding on too tight but it seems just too soon and she's so young. She's super smart and ready for school, but momma just isn't.
Edited to add: She wants a kitty.
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