Kindergarten

Big day today. One that I cannot believe is here. I registered Reilly for Kindergarten today. What you say, I have a baby big enough for Kindergarten, surely that is a mistake?! No, sadly it is not. We picked her up at Pre-k to wisk her off for registration. She was so excited to go in Daddy’s jeep, that she forgot the cry fest she had the night before when I told her what we were doing. She was extremely upset that she couldn’t stay at her school (she has been at the same Heritage Hills Baptist Church for private K3 and K4), that her friends will not be going to her new school, and she just overall thinks I am being mean about the whole process. As it turns out, she loved the school and is a little too excited about the fact that she can eat breakfast, lunch, and a snack at her new school. Me, her mother, did not like at all strange people I didn’t know coming and testing my baby. I spent a lot of research picking her K3/K4 location. I must have dragged Daniel to 10 different places before I picked the one she is at. However, her school has told me numerous times that Reilly really should be in a public school setting because she is such a people person and would really soar in this environment. She just does not need (at least at this point) a private setting. I took many deep breaths and finally just went to the bathroom so I could not think about what was going on. I do exceptionally well not letting Reilly see how crazed her momma is, but I just love my girls so much (and given what I do for a living) really makes me a bit neurotic at times. When we left I still wasn’t 100% sure what all they did when they took her for testing. Reilly told us some of it, but all they told us was she was all ready and everything looked great (I hope so because my hand is still numb from the 20 pages of stuff they wanted filled out). When we got into the jeep, Daniel told me he overheard (you know while I was hyperventilating in the hallway) them talk with one of the other mothers of things her daughter needed to work on over the summer. I guess since they didn’t tell us that, Reilly did just fine. Either way, I think she is going to love this school. I got a really good vibe about the place while I was walking around. I didn’t even cry. I do however reserve the right to drop her off on the first day, drive the 5 minutes back to our house, curl up in a ball in my bed, and cry my head off.