It kind of felt like a false start. If you ever ran track you know what that is. It is where someone starts coming out of the blocks before the gun goes off and everyone has to turn around and start over. Anyway, yesterday felt like that. Yesterday I sent my baby to kindergarten.
However, because our school district does a staggered start, she was back home today. This messed with me emotionally. I went through all the sadness of letting her go yesterday and then she is back again. I made up my mind to make it a low key kind of day, especially since she got up at 6am this morning. She played by herself most of the morning while I tried to get caught up on laundry and other stuff. I let her watch TV since she will not be able to when she goes to school all day. Then, just as I was heading to get some laundry, she walked up with a book for me to read to her.
It was THE book. Until I read this book, I had been doing fine with her going to kindergarten. I thought I was ready. Then I got this book from the library on Saturday. I had checked out every book they had on going to kindergarten the week before, but they had just gotten this one in so I could not check it out yet. I placed hold and then went to pick it up when the girls turned in the final cards from Summer Reading Club. I read it that night and then gave it to my husband. We both got a little emotional. Instead of talking about what kindergarten will be, this book talks about growing up in the years prior to going to school (when you were one...two...three...etc). It is really cute. It reminds me that she is growing up.
Today I am linking up for the first time with Tuesdays Unwrapped at Chatting at the Sky
