Maggie starts school

Maggie started school last week. We had been visiting her classroom the week before after we dropped Mo off. She liked her classroom and could tell me all about what she was going to do in it.

The first day of school she kind of woke up a bear. She was a bit moody all morning. Finally she broke out into tears and admitted "I don't want to go to school!!" After some breakfast bribing (a donut) and some snuggling, she was ready to go. She did pretty well on the first day. She would go off and play, then come over and tug my leg, just to make sure I knew she was still there. I snuck out after checking her in, and she did great. She loved having her friend Eva there to play.

Day two was not so good. Eva does not go on this day, so Mags had no friends in the class. She cried and screamed and held on and begged to please go to the gym with Mommy and B. Poor baby. The main teacher said she did stop crying and did better, but later the aide was talking to me and said "I love your daughter, She is so cute." When I looked at her a little perplexed, she said "I held her pretty much the whole class, and she just snuggled right up to me." I don't think being held by the teacher the whole class constitutes a "fine" day! Day three was better; Eva was back.

I did decide to drop her out of the day that her bff is not there. No need to push her. I don't do anything fancy anyway. I will just take her to the gym with me. Hopefully that will help. Today when I went in to let the teachers know she was going to drop Wednesday, they said she was great today. She just does her own thing. She is one of the ones they do not have to worry about. Hopefully that is true. Of course I did give all the teachers little back to school gifts so they would be nice to my babies. I am not above shameless bribery and butt kissing for my kids well being. Oh the sacrifices I make as a mother!