Ready to "Back to School"

When you go to the shopping mall, you will see "Back to School" everywhere. Are you ready? Maybe you are or maybe you are not.

As a mother of two, I am not quite ready for both of my kids "Back to School". HAHAHA!!! Eunice is going to the new school (VCS) on Sept 3 and same as Isaac is going to a new place (Brainbridge) on the same day. Eunice's schedule is 8:45 - 12:00 and Isaac's 9:30 - 11:00 for the first 2 weeks on Mon, Wed and Fri. After the first two weeks, they will be in full schedule. Eunice is from 8:45 - 3:00pm and Isaac is 9:15 - 11:45am. It seems to me that I have almost 2 1/2 hrs "kids free". On the other hand, I miss them a lot because both of them go to school together and leave me "alone" at home. Although I will have a lot of housework to do, I will not have Eunice or Isaac to call "mom .... " or Isaac is playing alone or Eunice is drawing on the table etc... There will be an adjustment for me as well as Eunice and Isaac. Of course, as an adult, it will be easier and faster to adjust. I talked to one of Eunice's pre-school teacher about my feeling. Then she said she never think about this on a mother's eyes. She said that you may be more cherish the time with them after school.

Have you ever cherish the time with your parents after school or work? They may miss you while you are away from them. May be we should spend some quality time with them!

New Morning schedule for Eunice and Isaac

After two weeks holiday for Eunice, she was back to Summer Program on Monday morning. I was so surprised that she woke up early morning without crying and was very eager to go to school to see her schoolmates and teachers.

I asked Eunice to brush her teeth and get dressed to school by herself. At the same time, I tried to wake Isaac up. It was a little bit early for Isaac but he was OK. Then we went downstairs and I prepared the breakfast and snacks for Eunice. Then Isaac came to me and asked, " Mom, what do I have for snacks? " Eeeee... I told Isaac a few times that he will go to school in the morning in Sept. Then I said, "The snack is for Eunice not you. You still have 3 more weeks." He seems like understood what I was talking about... After he finished his breakfast, I held Eunice's backpack to Eunice. I saw Isaac was packing the toy snack into his backpack. Then I asked, " What are you doing, Isaac? " "I am packing my snack and show it to the teacher..." Isaac answered as he asked me to help him to put on his backpack... Eeeeee... I smiled and knew that he did not understood when is "SEPT" or "3 more weeks".

After dropping off Eunice to school, Isaac and I went to the nearby playground "Bobolink Park" to play for a while. Isaac enjoyed playing the slide and swing for about 1/2 hour and we went back home. Since Eunice was attending the Senior Preschool from last September, she was having the class in the afternoon. It means that she always play with Isaac in the morning. I think Isaac got used to have Eunice around him. This two mornings, he kept on calling me as Eunice. He missed Eunice a lot. When Eunice came back home from school, he kept on asking Eunice to play with him. What a loving brother and sister!