September 6th, 2008

Grade One Week One

It was big boy’s first week of grade one this week.  It started off so much better than kindergarten did, but *I* was still pretty emotional that first day.

I think there is something about school that really brings home the fact that your child is growing up.  Not to mention that school means there are adults who your child really looks up to and trusts, the way that until now they have felt only about me, DH and people of OUR choosing.  I mean yes there are grandparents and family, but we have all the say about how often they see them, where, when, etc.  Now there is someone new in my baby’s life who I didn’t get to pick, and I find it a bit scary.

Miss K is the teacher in question.  She seems really nice and he was comfortable with her.  He LOVED his kindy teacher Miss D, so it’s good that he seems on track to enjoy this teacher too. This year Izzy gets his own desk, instead of sitting at a table, and he liked that.  We took a big pile of supplies on day one, and I took some pictures of course.  I haven’t downloaded them yet though!!

I think it was an emotional week for me too, because it made me look ahead to next fall when my second child will start kindergarten – then I’ll be all alone with baby a lot of the time, how weird!!