In parenting, I often ask myself, “Is this normal?!” probably more times than I would like to admit.
Whether it’s something my kids are doing that I find undesirable OR something I am feeling as a mom.
Emma starts 1st grade next Tuesday. We get to find out her classroom this weekend and I am having some major anxiety over which teacher she is going to get.
My oldest daughter, Emma, was born on June 11th. Back in my day, most kids with a June 11th birthday would enter Kindergarten at 5 years old, so in my head I had always assumed she would go to Kindergarten the Fall that she turned five. Am I right?
But then during her second year of preschool, I started to listen to chattering amongst preschool moms on the subject of Kindergarten, and I learned that many of them were opting to delay starting their kids with summer birthdays in Kindergarten until they had turned 6, a choice known as “redshirting.”
I thought this was typically something only parents of fall birthday babies were doing…
Today is Emma’s last day of Kindergarten. The picture on the left is from her first day. I love how she wrote P for 9 in the date. And there is my Kindergarten Grad on the right.
In the first picture I can sense some anticipation and a little fear in her eyes, today they are filled with joy and excitement. And so are mine, as well as a few tears, but they are tears of happiness.
When I asked her how she was feeling about school coming to an end, she said,
For anyone that missed my blog last week, my two-year-old daughter Morgan, had a minor surgery to remove an umbilical cyst. Here is the first post to get you up to speed just in case.
I am so happy to report that she is doing GREAT.
I learned so many things from going through this experience I wanted to share my tips on surviving a surgery with a toddler.
Many of the things I learned I have YOU to thank for. The support and advice…
My sister, a fellow mommy of a toddler in the trenches, forwarded an article on HuffPost Parents a couple months ago with two words: GOOD READ. In CAPS. She never forwards me articles so I was intrigued.
The article obviously struck a chord with mamas all over, as it has been shared and shared again, so I am sure many of you have read it already, and if you have, it is worth reading again.
But for those who haven’t, I wanted to write about this article today because her words have stayed with me. And because the article stirred up so many emotions in me, I also felt compelled to share my thoughts on “Don’t Carpe Diem.”
At first I was intrigued by the title. I am sort of a “Carpe Diem~glass half full~positive” kind of gal, so I couldn’t see myself totally agreeing with whatever was going to come next….