Oops, I got so caught up in the excitement of my 4 year-old starting Pre-K that I've neglected my blog and all four of you that read it. It's been a bit of a rush making the transition from parents of two small at-home children to one small at-home child and one STUDENT.
Just some of the new additions and practices that can be found in our home now include, backpacks, lunchboxes (which are a lot fancier these days than when I carried one), school lunches, uniforms, and notes from the teacher (all good of course).
Becoming the parent of a student is almost like becoming a parent for the first time. The excitement, paranoia and anxiety rise to levels they hadn't reached since the first sonogram. "What's she going to be like?" becomes "What's she going to be like in school?". Before they're born you just hope your baby is healthy and when you send them off to school you just hope your baby is safe. One thing I'm learning about this parenting gig is that there's ALWAYS something to worry about, "from the womb to the tomb".
So just as I was starting to feel like I had the hang of our everyday tasks and concerns, I'm presented with an all new routine, different hurdles and a fresh new list of
And while she's off broadening her horizons at school, her little sister is home celebrating her liberation from sibling oppression, which brings its own set of anxieties. Without her big sister around it's become obvious rather quickly that the little one should be under constant surveillance while she discovers her new found freedom and tests her abilities and limitations.
So maybe not EVERYTHING has changed.
But like I said, it's all exciting. I wait anxiously to see what school brings out of her. Will she be a leader, a scholar, an athlete, shy, obnoxious, silly, assertive, passive, etc.? These are all of the same things I wondered about when she was born and now we've taken our first step to finding out.
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