1st Day of Kindergarten

Prologue:

Step up day was last Friday for Alec and it consisted of dropping your child off for 2 hours. This was thrilling to me. 2 hours free and I didn’t have to go to work.YES!  I ran a few errands and then I S.L.O.W.L.Y shopped at Target…and I didn’t even feel guilty. That was so relaxing.

But let me back up even more. When Alec’s teacher sent her letter home to introduce herself I didn’t get the warm and fuzzies from it and not only that –there were typo’s in it.*sigh* (no need to remind me there are plenty of them in the blog but hey-I’m not teaching anyone). On open house night Alec was suppose to locate his name on a table of name tags. His wasn’t there. *sigh*. I was trying to keep an open mind.

Back to step up day. Alec and I walk into the gym and it is mass confusion everywhere except with Mrs. Arnold. She is standing there with her students all sitting in a row..nice and orderly. We walk up and she says “Hi Alec”. No prompting needed. Nice. Then she tells Alec to have a seat in the row and “mom- we are all set so you can say good bye and you are free”. Ummm…..I think I love this teacher. There was so much drama happening in the gym and parents loitering and just excess. It was just too much for any of the children handle. I am so glad that she was in control of her group that it made it easier. Maybe just for us but after a few years of dropping Alec at daycare..new rooms..new teachers…even a new school….I get what works for us. And this works.

I picked him and asked him how it went. HOT was the answer. That was about it. And so, with that, we went to Portland to meet Erik for lunch. And where else but one of my favorite places… Flatbreads. We sat outside and the weather was simply amazing.

Alec was on cloud nine from such fantastic 2 hours. This lasted for a few hours and then it switched to ‘I am never going to school anymore’. Sweet. With that attitude we decided not to talk about school at all over the weekend. Monday morning rolled around and he decided he would go again’ oh yeah…I forgot..but I will go’.  Good. Cause that’s the plan.

And there he goes….

And yes I got teary eyed…and pretty much cried. After the bus left. Not because he is growing up. No, he is ready for this step. I was just so darn nervous for him. And trying to trust that this big ‘ol bus will get him where he needs to be and in the right hands. I was just so thankful that he had our neighbors to ride the bus with and start this journey.

Lets hope that day 2 goes just as smoothly.