Lilly is attending the brand new primary school in our town. They shut down three old elementary schools and combined all the kids from those schools into one big school. It is grades K-2 and there are 600 students this year!
The school is so new that the gym/cafeteria floor isn't ready to be used this week. Luckily the rest of the school is ready and we got to tour the building Monday night.
We saw Lilly's classroom and met with her teacher, Mrs. Perruquet. Mrs. Perruquet is a friend of mine and I requested her to be Lilly's teacher. I am so happy that she is, she is fantastic!
Parents are not allowed in the school on the first day. Even if you drive your child to school a teacher or volunteer meets you at the car, opens the door, and takes them to their classroom. Safety and security is the reasoning. I think it is also to keep hysterical moms at bay.
(Here is Lilly checking out the view from the stairwell at school)
After I got Lilly to bed that night I sobbed for a few hours. I got it all out of my system. It was the kind of hysterics that only dogs could hear. I cried because my baby is getting older; because I am getting older; because Jack doesn't talk to me that much when Lilly isn't around; because my life is not how I imagined it. I imagined that I would have more children at home when Lilly left me for school.
Jack and I have lots of plans to stay busy and we are going to enjoy the few years he has left before he leaves me as well.
A bit dramatic? Perhaps, but I am nothing if not a bit dramatic.
2 comments:
It's so sad, she doesn't really have to go, does she?? The school looks amazing and I'm sure she will love it, but think about her poor mother!!
What great photos! I hope she has a wonderful experience in this beautiful new school.
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