Counting down started at the beginning of the year, yet no official countdown (requiring paper chains, calendars, or cupcakes) ever took place. Up to even days before the first day of Kindergarten, I was still in limbo of where Ad would be attending. Keeping Ad and C8 with their same daycare provider (my twin sister) was the ideal situation, but just was not an option if Ad would be attending “our” elementary school. Attempts to register her in my sister’s elementary school proved futile with an overabundance of 5-year-olds in the area, and no room for an “out-of-area” foreigner, yet they left it with hope for a possibility of cancellations.
Long story short, Ad is attending “our” school and daycare situations have been rearranged. Both girls have new schedules, new daycare location and provider, and new “friends”. Along with that, I have a new level of stress, and guilt factor. It comes with the territory. And I still can’t believe my baby is old enough to attend school!
But let’s not overshadow the excitement that was the first day of Kindergarten! Ad woke up bright and early, and did everything “big girls” do – showered, got dressed in an outfit she picked out, based on Aunt Jill’s style, and even did her hair (with a headpiece from “Jill’s store“).
With Kindergarten at 8:00 am, Ad needed a good breakfast which consisted of her favorite waffles, and milk from a “big girls’ glass”. (Starting to see the pattern here?)
Excitement ensued throughout the morning, including making up her own lyrics to “Silver and Gold” and singing them during different activities: “fork and knife. fork and knife. Mom is cutting my waffles with fork and knife.”
But the closer we got to school, the more the excitement started to fade, and the apprehension started to grow. Behold:
You can imagine my relief, at the end of the day, when she greeted me with “MOM! I want to go to Kindergarten EVERY SINGLE DAY!”
I think she liked it.
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