Saturday, September 08, 2007
Big day for the Schlesinger's! We had our first day of school this last Thursday. Yep, Sophie is an official kindergardner! (sp?) The whole family walked her to school (we only live one block from school, we can see it our our front door), and took her in. She was very excited the entire walk up until about 10 feet from the classroom door she got a look of fright and said, "Mommy, I don't want to go to school!" Well, since I am not an enabling mom :) I walked her into class and we found her seat and after about 30 seconds, she was back to normal and doing fine without me. The only problem was, I wasn't quite ready for her to be "fine without me". So I lingered in her room for a few moments, just like the rest of the parents who awkwardly stood around taking pictures of their child and wiping tears away from there eyes so that their child didn't see. So, then there was nothing else for me to do but leave. What a weird feeling. I don't know if there is anything that can prepare a mother for this day. Maybe daycare or preschool, which I haven't done either, so to leave my daughter for 2 hours and 40 minutes in a school with a great teacher, but someone I hardly know, was a bit tramatic....for me...not for Sophie. When I picked her up from school, she was exstatic and told me just how much she LOVED school and that she wanted to go back. Her main complaint was that the bathrooms did not look like Red Robin's bathrooms, that is, they didn't look cool and have "silver" all around. So now we begin our 17+ years that we will be in the school system. I am looking forward to it really. I don't get to be in "the world" all that much working at the church and being a full-time mom on top of that, so this will be my outlet to impact those around me with the Christ in me! :)
Posted by Sabrina at 10:29 AM
