1st Day of Preschool!!

As I sit here about to begin telling you about Ella's first day of Preschool, I begin to wonder where has the time gone. Seriously, didn't I just bring her home from the hospital yesterday? How could she possibly be old enough to start preschool, it can't be real, it has to be a dream, right? Could somebody please pinch me!! O.k., O.k., As much as I wish it were true I know that this is really happening.

Today, September 8th, 2009, was Ella's first day of preschool. She did great, but I knew that she would. It wasn't her I was worried about, it was me!! She had her clothes picked out the night before, had her backpack all packed and was ready for her big day. She started the day with her favorite breakfast, (waffles and sausage), and then I had to paint her nails. You can't seriously think that Ella could attend her first day of school without polish on those cute little fingers of hers!!

So off to school we go!!! Ella in the backseat asking "when are we going to be there?" And me up front driving, with butterflies in my tummy, because I'm the nervous one, telling her "it's just a little bit further up the road sweetie!" We FINALLY arrive at school, Ella gets to hand her backpack up on the hook, find her name tag and put it up on the board so everybody knows she is there and then it's time for me to leave. "What, I have to go, I can't stay with my baby girl, but what if she needs me?" Like I said this was harder on me than it was on her. All I had to do was hold my tears back until after I left the building. Is that possible? It almost wasn't. But I was strong. After all I couldn't let Ella see me tear up, she might think that something was wrong, and of course there wasn't. Unless you count my baby growing up and going off to school without me, does she even need me anymore? Of course she does, and she always will, she will always be my baby girl, no matter how old she is. Although I was the one crying like a baby today. After I left her in her room I cried all the way out to the truck, it was almost as hard as leaving her at daycare for the very first time. But I got over it!!

After all this drama, when I asked Ella what she learned at her first day of Preschool, she told me "nothin", but she got to sing and dance!! So Ella's first day of school was a success. I am so happy that she is happy, that is all that matters at the end of the day!!!