life, lately

Life has definitely taken over and left me with very little time/energy/emotions to blog about anything!  I've managed to skip blogging about a trip to Dallas with my bests, John Mark's 5th birthday and our anniversary-not to mention my last pregnancy update was 6 weeks ago!  Let's just say I'm a LOT bigger... ha!  I promise I'll post a pregnancy update this weekend.

For now, I just have to talk about my sweet boy.  See, he's 5 now and where I come from- turning 5 equals one thing- KINDERGARTEN. 

Not to make excuses, but because of the craziness of this entire year, I missed pretty much every deadline concerning school.  I missed kindergarten information day in the spring, which means I've gone into this whole school thing pretty much blind.  When I finally DID get around to enrolling him in school, I was under the impression he would be going to school half-day.  I made arrangements to have childcare for him and thought I was good to go.  It wasn't until two weeks ago that I found out his school ONLY offers all day kindergarten.

Let me just tell you, that was a meltdown waiting to happen.  I managed to not cry until I hung up with the ever-so nice lady from the school.  But as soon as the phone screen said "end" I was in tears.  I cried for DAYS thinking about my baby being in that big ol' school for so many hours.  And you don't even want to know the breakdown that occurred when I envisioned him eating lunch in a cafeteria!

 But today was information day, and we got to go to school together and meet his teacher.  I saw the cafeteria (not too scary) and walked through the gym.  We saw his classroom, his cubby and where I will drop him off and pick him up everyday.  And I managed to not cry- which for a 25 week pregnant mommy taking her baby to school for the first time, is a pretty big deal!

Now as for Friday, when I get him all delivered and sent to school for the day, I make no promises.  My only hope is that I make it to the car before I hysterically burst into tears.  I mean, I don't want to give JM a complex for having a crazy mom, do I?