It's official. We have a kindergartener! Ben started school on Thursday. Brant was able to drop him off on the first day of school and reported that Ben was a trooper, finding his classroom, putting his bag away and joining the other kids in looking at books, while a teary eyed Brant left (and I'm not making that up - he admitted it). Although I would have loved to have been part of that, I was at my own school greeting kids and teary eyed parents. I think since I was emotional about Ben starting school for the past six weeks, the actual first day was kind of a relief. On the second day of school, Ben rode the bus to school. If I'm being honest, this is probably the part that made me the most nervous of anything. However, Ben willingly got on smiling ear to ear and made it to school just fine. I know I work for Ankeny Schools so I might be a little biased, but I have to send out a big kudos to everyone who makes the beginning of school comfortable not just for kids, but for parents as well. Having never been on the parent side of the fence, it really does matter when the school nurse takes extra care, when the kindergarten teacher emails over lunch the first day to report everything is going well, and the bus driver gives a personal phone call to ensure she understands Ben's allergy and reports that he had a great first day on the bus. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that our first full week goes well! I have a feeling we'll have a pretty tired kiddo by Friday!
In my own mind, the start of school marked the start of three weeks of change/challenge at our house. Ben's week of change/challenge was last week, and this week is Abby's. Abby has her surgery in Iowa City on Wednesday and we are keeping our fingers crossed that this time she stays healthy and we can actually get the surgery done. She will be in the hospital one or two nights, depending on how she is doing, but we are expecting her to feel pretty under the weather and sore the first few days home. Keep us in your thoughts and prayers that everything goes smoothly.
And, Brant's week of change is next week. At the end of July, he was offered a great opportunity to work for HyVee at their corporate office in the marketing department. It is a great opportunity for him and his first day of work will be August 26. However, that will definitely change our lifestyle and be a shift for me in the kind of flexibility we have with pick up and drop off of our kids, and tasks around the house. Brant has worked at home for five years, so we've (and myself especially) become pretty used to having him around a lot. We will have to get used to him leaving earlier and getting home a bit later and just getting back into the swing of an actual office setting for a job.
And as for me, I'm 28 weeks pregnant and as you can imagine from what has been written above, have shed plenty of irrational pregnancy-induced hormonal tears, whether that be for happy, sad, or stressed reasons! However, Baby Girl is active and I still feel really good, so I'm counting my blessings and excited that we have so much to look forward to in the next couple of months!
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