First Week of School Down, Looking Forward to the Fall
"Ok mommy, enough with the pictures already!" First Week Done. Check This past school week was busy, confusing, exciting and quick all at once. The kid had just as contradictory adjectives to describe it as well when I asked her how she liked her new school. She liked it but missed her old school. She loved riding the bus but wasn't so thrilled when she had to get off. She got stickers and accolades from her teacher for her school work but felt her teacher didn't like her as a person. Yes, she said that. At six, she was dissecting the anatomy of what "liking" someone meant. "Woman, are you really taking pictures of my in my class?" For me, I was the mother lioness determined to make sure that this past week was as non-traumatic as it could be. It wasn't easy. From day one, when I dropped my daughter off at school and later came to pick her up-- standing with the dozens of other parents who came to pick up their elementary school a...