back to school??

For all of us!! Yesterday I registered the girls for school and felt very proud that I, (ok we, both Bond and I) feel as though the girls are ready for school. Bayat has been asking about school for about 4 weeks now and Kidist, well. . . she doesn't quite know what she wants to be when she grows up!

So back to registering. .

We are in an option area for school, which means that we are in an area that we can pick which school our children go to. We have a choice of three schools actually, but quickly narrowed it down to two and then visited each of them. They are both fine schools and we are hoping that we are able to have Kidist attend our first choice. By the way, she will be in Kindergarten. Bayat will be attending a 4 year old kindergarten program (or what is referred to as P4J, Preschool for Janesville) in a community center and spend the other half of the day with same aged peers learning English, social skills, community skills and other necessary skills that all 4 year olds need to learn. I am really really really excited that they are ready for school and are going to school.

It's August 20, 2008, Wednesday morning 10:00 a.m. on the last official day to register your children for school and I'm walking out the door feeling pretty good about our decisions. We have visited oodles of places, talked with many community directors, private school prinicipals, trying to be well informed parents and make the best choices we can for our two wonderful daughters. Sorry, I digress. . . I'm walking our the door, yes that is where I left off. . . . . I get into the car, start the engine and start CRYING !! YES, CRYING!! What is that!! I can't believe I'm sending my children to school after only 12 weeks of being in America! But it's the best thing for them!! And they want to go!

It's not fair that when you have biological children, you get to spend 4-5 years bonding, sharing boogers, poopy diapers, spit up and all of that other good stuff before sending them off to school. WE GOT TWELVE WEEKS!! And really, I'm thankful, but GEEZ, they are my babies still. . . .We haven't even had a babysitter yet!

Ok, I'll stop, but yes, I am also going back to school, that is work!! Where I will continue to treat my little kiddos at (my hopefully 4 buildings this year) school and then come home to get lots of hugs and kisses from my ethiopian princesses and hear all about their school adventures!! It will all be good!! Do all moms go through this??