Tomorrow is a big day! A day filled with firsts for my second born, Elliot. Tomorrow is his first day of kindergarten, his first day as an official big kid in our house, his first day of bus riding, his first day at the same school as his older brother , his first day wearing a school uniform, his first day with a new teacher and although I will be dropping him off tomorrow the rest of the year he will not have me as his personal attendant  retrieving him from his classroom every day. Big changes with two kids in school but I know he is ready!

Elliot has a summer birthday, which makes him one of the youngest in his class. You, as a parent, just never know if they will be mature enough to attend kindergarten when they are 5 or if they should wait until 6,  but he is ready. He is intelligent and inquisitive and WANTS to take on the challenges of learning to read, learning about God and learning all the rules that go along with school.  He is excited about everything school related, even the supplies! He has meticulously laid out and checked off, packed and re-packed all of his supplies making sure that we had everything he will need.  He was so excited about his school things that he insisted on wearing his backpack around with his stuff so the twins would not take his kindergarten supplies. Only after I put them out of reach did he forget about them and go back to his summer mind frame. HE is ready for it all and anxious to be a kindergartner, I AM NOT!

I thought I was; I often talk about how nice it will be for school to start to keep him busy and to not have him asking me all day what he should do.  The thought of quiet “me time” while the three littler kids nap sounded amazing, but now I realize that was our time. That was my “quality time” with Hayden and Elliot, the time when we would do projects together, read, bake or just talk. Now our “quality time” will all have to be done on the weekends. He is ready, so I guess I will HAVE to be ready too!

Tomorrow, I turn him over to someone else. Another teacher, not like me, but one that will teach him what he needs to know to be successful in school.  Tomorrow is a big day, not just for Elliot but for me too. My second child is going to school and is a baby no more, I pray I can keep it together until I get to the car!