I Must Not Get Too Far Ahead Here

Awwww, my big boys are back at school.

Matthew is now year 4 and James is still in nursery. All but one of his friends have moved up to Reception class and will be on their first full day of school today.

Liam begins playgroup on ....day.

Yep, you read that right, I still don't have a day. The woman who runs it hasn't got back to me and to be honest I am now getting rather pissed off.

I know Liam is more than ready for this. He ran into James's nursery this morning and sat with all the new kids. Bless him. He just wanted to get in there and be one of them. My poor little man. I know he's going to love it and I now doubt that he will have much trouble leaving me. I think he is going to be more than happy to run off and find new activities and adventures. Even the teachers commented on how he looked like he would settle in very easily and seemed to know his stuff.

In a strange twist of events, I collected James from nursery today to be told there was a place for Liam if I wanted it. Now this is FANTASTIC news ......

Yet there is a BUT......

The problem being is that he is not three for another 2 weeks and they don't accept them until the term AFTER they turn 3. Having explained this to the school office they simply said "Just leave it with us and come and see us again when you drop the other two off at school tomorrow."

I am trying not to get my hopes up, but it would be just amazing if they could fix to holding this place for him until January. I could have all 3 in the same school and it would make life much easier. I won't allow myself to think that maybe they could just do something so he can do one day a week here from September until he can go full time in January.

Fingers crossed the school can come to a solution for us all.

These school holidays have gone so fast and I have loved having them home (most of the time) so it feels a little strange being back to just me and Liam. It will be even stranger the first day I come home alone from his drop off.

I don't know what is worse, dropping off your first (only) child on their first day of pre-school or your youngest. As much as they look forward to new things, it's that little bit less for munmy to do once again and it DOES take some getting used to.