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Zach woke up thinking today was Wednesday and that school starts tomorrow.  He groaned when I told him it was only Tuesday!  He can't wait to see what Mr. P's class is like and how it will be actually going in to class with friends for the first time.  Megan is so excited that she gets to eat lunch her very first day and that they're having chicken nuggets and green beans! 

I'm so happy for them.  I hope they have as great a year as we're anticipating.  I hope it goes okay for me, too.  I'll have my job at the preschool Tuesdays and Thursdays, and I have my application in to sub both in the school libraries and the classroom at any of the elementary schools on the other days.  I'll probably be giving up transcription and the doctor's office altogether if I get plenty of subbing, but I'll hang onto them for now until I see how things go. 

It's hard to let go of this way of being that I've enjoyed so much.  I'll miss having a small child around me most of the time (I say as I prepare to teach two classes of 14 three-year-olds -- but of course it's different from being with my own).  Being pretty much a stay-at-home mom has been the best time of my adult life so far and the happiest I've been.  I'm trying to keep in mind the story from my grandmother's funeral about the woman who told, as each phase with her children passed, that it could never get any better than right now, and it always did because of the lessons she taught her children along the way.  I'm sure that's the way it will prove to be for me, too, it's just hard to see it from here.