Today is my oldest son’s first day back at school. He’s attends a year-round school that we love…they go to school for 9 week blocks and have 3 3-week intersessions. And summer vacation is only about 6 weeks long. It’s a schedule he thrives in and we’re very glad that we have the opportunity for him to attend a school with a year-round calendar.
Last year he started kindergarten in the midst of much family drama…my husband had just been laid off, I was pregnant and still in the first trimester, and we (being the overprotective and slightly anxious parents that we are) were very worried about how he would do in full day school 5x a week. As it happened, I woke up that morning with some symptoms of possible miscarriage and I was so freaked out that I didn’t get as emotional as I expected to…I was way too stressed about losing the baby to really register the enormity of the day mentally.
But today is the first day of 1st grade, and despite looking forward to him going back to school for about a week now, I just broke down crying because I miss him. Since there is no other explanation for this, I’ll just say I’m hormonal. It makes about as much sense as anything else, I guess!
