First Day of Kindergarten

Today my 5yo, Little Boy, started kindergarten. It was a world of improvement over my experience with the first day of kindergarten for Big Boy. For one, there were NO tears! Not by me, not by Little Boy. My little boy is a very social little guy. He is always making new friends wherever he [...]

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The First Time on the School Bus

**I’ve written this as an exercise related to the Momoir Project

First times are hard for me to remember to be honest. I have almost no memory of the first time I held my first baby. Actually, I only “remember” seeing a picture and thinking, “really, did I hold him in recovery?” I had a c-section [...]

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Who Said He Could Grow Up

I dropped my middle child off at his first day of Fun Factory today. Fun Factory is a playschool type of thing that he’ll be going to once a week for a couple of months, then twice a week until summer. I finally got my act together to put him into the program so he [...]

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Grade One Week One

It was big boy’s first week of grade one this week.  It started off so much better than kindergarten did, but *I* was still pretty emotional that first day.
I think there is something about school that really brings home the fact that your child is growing up.  Not to mention that school means there are [...]

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Kindergarten Countdown

Well my big boy only has 5 more days of kindergarten left – and two of those are fun days really (a big field trip and the summer concert/pizza lunch). It seems like just the other day I was crying myself sick after leaving him the first time. The year did not start [...]

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