Ready for School
Today I was really hit by the fact that one of the hardest parts of parenting isn’t even in the same building as cleaning up bodily fluids or going upstairs to “fix the covers” for the 3rd time in 15 minutes.
It’s in encouraging the push for independence, and growth.
My wife sent me a snapshot of Allison before running her to her first day of pre-school. And I felt quite a strong bit of emotion. I am still not sure if it is reluctance, fear, sadness, joy or all of them pushed together.
Happy first day, Allison!
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She looks so much bigger on the computer than on my phone. I’m glad that picture came out so well! I’m still upset that she had no problem leaving me. A very small part of me hopes that when I go to pick her up she’s huddled in the corner crying her eyes out for her Mommy! and that’s how she spent all morning; that is how I wanted to spend all morning, crying for Alli! The entire rest of me wants her to be running around doing all the activities with all the other kids & being very reluctant to leave. I’m sure she’s doing fine today, as she will everyday…hopefully by November I’ll be doing okay too!