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We now have a first grader and a first-time preschooler! Adela is in Ms. Dufour’s class. Josiah will be hanging out with Ms. Michelle and Ms. Mandy.
Adela, you say you want to be a Mommy when you grow up. And maybe own a flower shop (you’ll get a babysitter to go to the shop, you said.) But you’re concerned that you are “allergic to pollen,” and aren’t exactly sure how that’s going to work if you’re around flowers. Josiah, when asked what you want to be when you grow up, you said you want to “Be Josiah.” Yes! Good choice. I wouldn’t want you to be anyone else. There is no one else like you in the whole world. I know both of you will be making your own marks on your schools and on the world in your own uniquely awesome ways.
This is the first year that both of you will be away from me at the same time on the same days on a regular basis leaving me home alone, without children for the first time in almost 7 years, for 7 hours a day. Josiah will only be gone Tuesdays and Thursdays, but still…. 2 whole 7-hour periods. It’s exciting and sobering and actually quite sad. It has always been, and is increasingly true what they say… it goes by fast. And it doesn’t go by fast in a slow manageable fashion. Sometimes it seems like the days stretch on forever, and then, snap!, like a rubberband that has been stretched just a little too far, it seems like all of time springs forward in an instant with a smarting shock to my senses. The rubberband just snapped, and I am a mother of gradeschool children.
