I am officially the ONLY mom not crying over her baby starting kindergarten. Rylee starts at Cactus Ranch Elementary on Tuesday and I couldn't be happier. This week started off with the Welcome Walk (each teacher comes to the home of the children in her class and introduces herself) followed by Friday's "Back to School Howdy," where we pick up school supplies and buy "spirit wear" that somehow incorporates the school mascot of a longhorn cow head. Say what you will about the school name, cow head mascot, and using the word "howdy" as part of a back to school event, but Texans are so nice (I mean the teacher comes to your house!), and the school is amazing.
At the Howdy (sorry, I just had to throw that word in there), all I could think about was, "I get to leave you here all day, everyday, from 7:45-2:45" and "now you can only say hateful things to me from 5 pm-7:30 pm, because you'll probably be too tired during the morning and late afternoon hours to remember you feel that way" and "now someone will finally teach you to read, because I've tried and you get mad and tell me you just want me to read the book" and "finally this won't cost $210 a month" and a few other things I won't mention, lest I sound like an unfit parent.
And now I'm trying to think of a way to end this post without sounding like a horrible person, because I will miss her little-red-glasses-face...
But mostly, I think Kindergarten is a fabulous institution and I embrace it even if entails her wearing a giant cow's head on a blue tie-dyed shirt. Which I bought her yesterday. At the Howdy.
6 comments:
You've captured my thoughts so well. except I was a little sad to see isaac go 'cause he's my sweet one, but sending mac to school is a friggin god send!!! too bad its only for 2.5 hours a day and it costs me $225 a month. 2 more years baby and then he's off to kindergarten!!!!
Haha, you crack me up. And yes it is awesome that the teacher comes to your house to introduce herself!
I'm with ya. Last year while most other parents were freaking out about sending their kids to "all day" kindergarten - I was secretly doing a happy dance. it was awesome. i was happier. jake was happier. and the noise level dropped by half at our house.
Oh my. So many things to say. Where to start? Where to start. Eh, my brain is on overload. I give up.
I've been counting down the days to school since Boedy was 1 month old (when all I could think about was time to sleep!) I don't know how some moms do homeschool!
You can't pretend like you are not from there anymore. Howdy should be a part of your everyday vocab by now :)
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