We Made It!

The first day came and went! My sweet guy did so well at drop off it almost hurt my feelings!!! I am so thankful we made the decision last year to keep him in preschool an extra year. We could both see the huge difference that it made in him.
And, just in case you are wondering, I didn't do too bad either. As I told you last week, I tried to be thankful for the moment and enjoy it for what it was. Now, I'm no saint. I cried a few tears, but we made it!

Tomorrow

Tomorrow I will let you go
I might cry a few a tears, but I won't let you know
From me you'll see nothing but a smile
Then, we'll say "see you in a little while"!

Tomorrow I will let you go
Into the world to learn and grow
Oh, my sweet little man, I hope you know
Just how much I love you so!

That New Smell

Meet the teacher was fantastic! I loved the layout of the classroom and how his teacher had everything organized. The best part of all for my bugaboo, pillow pets in the reading center!!! Oh! And, he is at the BLUE table! His teacher seems really nice and soft spoken.
We had lots of fun walking the halls. The school in our neighborhood is brand, spanking new; and, the layout is pretty unique. Everything looked so clean and shiny and smelled so new.
As we were walking along I couldn't help but notice how each classroom was decorated so unique and cute. Do you know what? I even got a little jealous of one teacher's owl bulletin board border. Jealous? Really? I haven't taught for six years, and the thought of going back scares the heck out of me, but I guess I not immune to the lure of cute bulletin board border!

I know, I know, I know

Wow! Over a year since my last post! I really thought I would take this blogging thing a little more seriously. So, this is my official re commitment to Rambling Mama! I know a re commitment is like a redo on your New Year's resolution, but work with me here!
So, in the past couple of weeks I've had a pretty huge change of perspective. I know this seems to happen to us all every few days, months, years or so; but, this one is ENTIRELY different!
You see I have been fretting and fretting over the boy who first stole my heart starting kindergarten. How am I going to this? What if I don't like his teacher? How do I let them know I was once an insider without being too pushy or helicoptery? I knew I needed a distraction or this thing could really get out of hand. I know I have the baby chunka munka here, but that is not the kind of distraction I am talking about. I started P90X, definitely not the distraction I am talking about either. Last week, though, that distraction came in the form of a perspective change. You might even call it a Godly attitude adjustment or slap upside the head!
I was being so SELFISH! First of all, the boy is not at all worried about kinder. He is 100%, full throttle, ready.to.go! Why should I diminish that with the energy of my worrisomeness all over the place? Secondly, there are mamas all over that would love to be able to take their sweet baby to kindergarten, but can't. Now, I don't mean they can't because they don't have a car, new clothes, bus fare, etc. Are you following me here? I told you this one was different!
I know next Monday is going to be hard. It's just my nature. But, when it feels like I just can't let him go, I'm going to think of all those sweet mommies that would love to be letting go of their babies at kindergarten.
I know, I know, I know...It's a little heavy for the first one back.

Jodie

PS. Please pray for Tripp Roth and his family. Their blog is: www.randycourtneytripproth.blogspot.com