A Day In The Life

Well the first full week of school has proven to be somewhat difficult. Between exhaustive tantrums at the end of the school day, parent night at the elementary school, numerous emails to Kylie's teacher, and figuring out the best schedule for our family I am feeling the overwhelming stress many people talk about. Kindergarten has been a big adjustment on our family. I am finding myself pretty exhausted at the end of the day.

I am so happy we have found a great school where Kylie feels safe, valued and that her opinion matters. Though our financial situation doesn't always warrant for the newest, the best or the fanciest we are able to provide Kylie Jade the best start to her school career as we possibly can. School is too big of an issue to play around with, experiment with, and just hope that the outcome isn't failure. I fully believe we have made the best choice and given any other option this would be the choice I would choose every time.

As Kylie grows, learns and develops in a real school setting I am seeing her little personality blossom. She has new friendships, many teachers, and a whole world away from me that I won't ever really be a part of. As much as I feel a little weepy over the years that are now just memories I can't help but be so excited for my daughters new found independence. Even though we've had a few mishaps already in Kindergarten they will only be distant memories, just like her diaper, paci and bottle feeding years, in just a blink of the eye.

6 am comes far too early and with the crazy amount of rain we had it makes it ten times more difficult to get out of bed, shower and start breakfast before the girls wake up. As they slowly and dreadfully wake up I begin preparations for the start of the school day. I take it one day at a time, one crazy exhausted moment at a time, one headache at a time. I know this too shall pass and that when the time comes for her to move onto the middle school age I will be thinking back on this as one of the simpler times.

So no matter how hard it is to wake up with the massive headaches that are soon to follow, no matter how annoying it is to awaken sleeping children and get them both ready for the day ahead I am going to enjoy and savor every last minute of it because anyone with children knows that the time goes way too fast.

And no matter how many times I have to wake one sleepy eye at a time I can keep holding onto the hope that, no matter how exhausted I am, the weekend is only a few days away!