With the oldest at school during the day, I tend to spend a lot of time getting creative with the preschooler. But with Christmas break and an extra week off due to the weather, the kindergartner and I had plenty of time to really play with sight words. We had fun with these […]
Letter to My Daughter as She Starts School
My baby girl, How the time has flown! I swear it was just yesterday that we pulled onto our road, with you buckled in your little car seat, and tears streaming down my face as I realized we really did get to bring you home from the hospital. The next thing I knew […]
The BEST First Day of School Books for Kindergarten
The room was full of parents helping students hang up backpacks, giving final hugs, and a few just lingering. A grin covered my daughter’s face as she opened up her chocolate milk, blond ponytails swinging back and forth. She held up her hand, and I knew it was time for me to leave. […]
Kindergarten Nerves
Dearest Peanut, Today I called about kindergarten. It turns out we missed the registration day they had set up. I never thought that they’d do registration so early! One of the few drawbacks about where we live is there really aren’t any families around with young kids for me to talk to, so […]