School Days

Just a quick note about my changing children. Canon has now moved into an official "preschool" class. Last week I received a supply list, complete with Jumbo crayons, a pencil box, and a backpack that he will carry to school each day! He'll spend the next two weeks just getting used to his new teachers and classroom, and official lessons will begin on August 15. When I walked him to his class this morning, he went straight for the toys. I basically dumped his blankets and bag on his new teacher, kissed him good-bye, then ran back down the hall to Tera's new classroom. He didn't seem to mind. He'll be with the same children he has been with the past year, so only the scenery will change for now.

That's right. Tera started daycare today, too. I actually handled it better than I did the first time I took Canon last fall (and he was 16 months old at the time). Tera, like Canon, has wonderful teachers, so I'm not worried at all about her care. I was more sad that the time has passed so quickly, and we are already to this point of having to leave her all day. She didn't seem to mind, and after at least thirty minutes of postponing the inevitable, I finally left her under someone else's care. She'll do better than me, I'm sure!



After dropping both kids off, I had planned to go to the school to get my room ready for the coming year, but a broken A/C there closed everything down. Instead, I spent the day at home putting everything away from our weekend away and Tera's baby shower in Winfield. (I'll write more about that later). I would stop periodically throughout the day and wonder where I had last left Tera . . . then remembered that it was at daycare. It's funny how dettaching something that has been there for so long can be so difficult!