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It's time to play a bit of catch up on my blog.
It has been a very interesting month. Madison had a much harder time adjusting to kindergarten than I expected. I knew it would be hard for her but was unprepared for the level of anxiety and physical symptoms she would be experiencing. I feel sad that her kindergarten year started the way it did when it didn't have to but things happen and hopefully things are worked out now. I had a huge wake up call with public school. I had heard lots of things about how the teachers are so willing to work with parents and how they loved involved parents but I found that isn't necessarily the case, at least not very early in the school year. I was also a little naive about how one teacher was going to get order in a class of 20+ students. A public school classroom is very different than the way I have parented my children and I feel bad I didn't prepare my daughter better for what was ahead of her. I wish a lot of things had been different. I wish we had the opportunity to meet the teacher before school started. I wish we had the opportunity to go and check out her classroom and the school beforehand. I wish, in all honesty, my child had gotten a teacher with more experience dealing with a highly sensitive and emotion child. I wish a lot of things but I am thankful for how things are progressing and, in a way, am thankful for the opportunity to get my hands dirty and get involved right out of the gate because it's not like me to do that and now it's over with. For better or worse the teacher and principal know me and know I am quite interested in the kind of year my daughter is going to have. I have volunteered for everything I have been able to so far. I have helped with picture day, the jog-a-thon, bringing food for the teachers for open house, I am scheduled to volunteer in her classroom twice this week and in coming weeks and am volunteering for pumpkin day. I have also taken on the role for beginning the Cash for Trash program requiring me to be at the school to make posters, flyers, etc. Yikes, I can see why I am pegged an overprotective mom (that is my own opinion...not something that was said to me). Enough of that..
If the stress of these first weeks of school wasn't enough I have been having some health issues that are worrying me. Thankfully a visit to the doctor today was ended with "you should feel some reassurance that it's nothing too serious to worry about". So, I feel "some" reassurance and am going to hold on to that. I don't want to write too much about this but it is amazing how much a little worrying about your health can do for the way you look at your kids, family, friends and strangers. I am blessed and thankful for so much.
A much needed girls weekend is coming up this weekend. I am so excited to get away and relax with friends. I'm looking so forward to beach combing, amazing views, a beautiful beachfront house, a super comfortable king sized bed all to myself, sleeping in, staying up late, eating delicious food, beachside fires, cocktails, board games, chick flicks, reading by the fireplace and whatever else we can fit in. I am going to the same place as last year and couldn't think of any place else I would have rather gone when I started to plan it.
Right now I am sitting in one of my favorite places on earth with Rob Thomas Radio playing. I don't know why this place makes me so happy but it does. I am attempting to simplify again and have unsubscribed to more than 20 blogs I am following. Seriously, who has time for all of that even if you do spend every waking free minute at a coffee house in front of your computer? I won't miss anything.
I have a big stack of books sitting in front of me and can't seem to decide which one to read. If this is the biggest problem I have at the moment I am doing well.
Off to go start a book. I can't seem to do much reading lately but hope to get one started so I can finish it on my weekend away. I've got some pictures of apple picking to post but they are on my other computer. I'll try to get to that soon.