not a baby anymore.
Wow, it's been so long since I posted anything here. I guess I forgot how much fun it was to dump my brain in more than 244 characters at a time. Or maybe I thought people had stopped reading. Or I had just moved on.
But today is a monumental day. It was Ella's first day of school.
Real school. Not pre-K, not daycare that calls itself school. But bona fide, she could have ridden the school bus and she had to take lunch money with her school.
We did the open house thing on Tuesday, but that just didn't prepare her, it seems for the bells that would ring and say "parents, it's time to leave." She's been in a pre-K that allowed parents to stay for circle time and allowed us to pick her up whenever.
But now? Now she has to be there by 7:55 and she gets picked up at 2:15.
She has a seat with her name on it, a cubby with the same, she has lines she has to stand in and schedules that have to be followed.
She's a child, not a baby.
But today is a monumental day. It was Ella's first day of school.
Real school. Not pre-K, not daycare that calls itself school. But bona fide, she could have ridden the school bus and she had to take lunch money with her school.
We did the open house thing on Tuesday, but that just didn't prepare her, it seems for the bells that would ring and say "parents, it's time to leave." She's been in a pre-K that allowed parents to stay for circle time and allowed us to pick her up whenever.
But now? Now she has to be there by 7:55 and she gets picked up at 2:15.
She has a seat with her name on it, a cubby with the same, she has lines she has to stand in and schedules that have to be followed.
She's a child, not a baby.