The deed is done. Emma is at school right now. Emma got pretty nervous today. As soon as we got out of the van and started to see how many kids were there (there are 950 at her school and probably half of them were walking in from the local neighborhood) she teared up. CG got to the school right when we did so they were able to walk in together but Emma still clung to me.
We got in the class and she teared up again. As soon as she started, I started welling up. I gave her a quick hug while the assistant took her, grabbed a tissue and headed out the door. I cried a bit walking down the hall with several other mothers. In fact, you could see a stream of parents walking the kids to class and the ones going back up the hall the other way were childless with tears. At least I wasn’t alone.
I had a little cry in the van and then Scott took me to Starbucks and made it all better. I’m trying not to think about the fact she might be upset but I know her teacher was very responsive to her. I actually saw her through the window when we were driving away and she was walking around the class holding the assistant’s hand.
Anyway, we’re making it. I can’t wait to hear about it this afternoon and see how she did. And of course I took some video this morning. *Jaynee is telling me she wasn’t crying when she left so I feel a bit better. You can link over to her post and see Emma in a few pics.
Wow emma looks thrilled in that pic……
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can’t see the video-but- girl I totally understand! I remember the first day of K for both the boys!!!
Mark headed off to middle school today! Whew- just wait- Emma will be there before you know it!
Prayers to you and Emma both to make it through the day!
Thanks! YouTube is taking forever to process the vid…sorry!
I am putting one in the 4th grade this year and one in middle school. I remember those days all too well. Don’t worry. Give her a week tops (if not sooner) and she’ll be so anxious to get to school.
Mine are both telling me how much they want to go back.
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Yeah, I know she will love it once she gets used to everyone. Just getting through this transition is tough.
I teared up watching your video, because I remember how it felt to take my babies to school the first day! I was so worried about Abby, and the first day she was a little iffy, but almost two weeks in and she LOVES it and can’t wait to go back every day.
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Hang in there, it does get better. I’m certain that when you pick her up this afternoon she will be anxious to tell you about all the new things she did today.
You’ll have to tell her for us how pretty she is in her first day of school outfit. Leila constantly complains that because of their uniform she misses out on buying “pretty” back to school clothes.
Hope you both have a wonderful day.
Everyone at work keeps asking me if I cried this morning and my response is, “No, because as of Monday my daycare costs go down by about $200 a month! YYYEEEHHHHAAAAWWWWW!” 🙂
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