Kindergarten 2015

Kai has been "patiently" waiting for this day for so long.  He has had a plan.

The night before we would have a special dinner; in his mind, that meant we HAD to go to IHOP.

The next morning we would have breakfast (a special one of course), go to the park and tell every single person he came in contact with that it was his first day of Kindergarten.

I had been asked many times, by many different people if I would cry.  

Was I sad?  Would he cry?  Would he miss me?

And the answer to all of those answers were...no :)

Don't get me wrong I was going to miss this high energy boy and I would be ready to pick him up at the end of the day. But the truth of the matter was, we BOTH needed this school time.

Kai needed to feel independent.  He and I have our ups and downs.  He needs me, but REALLY doesn't want to. He needed to know that I trusted him to be safe, smart and a good listener. He needed to be told "no" by someone other than me.  He needed to make friends, have disagreements and solve problems without his Mom around.

And I needed it as well.  I needed to feel like I could put my energy on the other little bundles we created.  That I could sit back and pray that all that I had taught him would be put into practice. And to be very honest I needed to miss him.  I needed to be excited to experience new things with him.

Each day that he goes to school my anxiety tells me I need to let go and each day I pick that munchkin up I pray that he is excited to see me again.

This school thing has been a transition for us all. A good transition. And some days a bad transition. But aren't all transitions that way?  We take the goods and bads and together we move forward.

I love my Mr. Independent...watch out world, Kai is coming and he isn't looking back!!