After a whirlwind week that included visits to Disneyland, Chuck E. Cheese and her very first North Los Angeles County USBC tournament, Zoe has entered Kindergarten. Her first day will only be a 3-hour adventure from 9 to 12ish, but after today, she'll be in school fulltime.
Zoe put on her nametag and lined up with the rest of her class. She seemed fine, I survived as well. I was more concerned that some parents literally hovered over their kids, unable to leave them (not the other way around). A huge relief for me, she's by far not the tiniest kid there.
An hour earlier, Michael left for 11th grade--he's a junior now. Ironically, Michael gets out earlier than Zoe does with this fullday kindergarten approach. I'm not thrilled with the concept, but the 1/2 day schools are still required to hold the same amount of language and math, so there's no time for anything else. At least fullday will offer her music, science, and other subjects that would not be possible with the mandates that require more than 3 hours per day.
So now I have a kindergartener at the beginning of her school career and a kid who's halfway through his high school experience. With ten years between them, I'm trying hard to savor everything more this time around. I'm already trying to prepare for Michael's leaving, if he decides to go away to school, but I have two more years to get my head around that.
Now I have to rush to get things together for the leagues' starting this weekend. With all the craziness going on a Rocket right now, I can't begin to predict what will happen there, but I know the Sport league is looking phenomenal thanks to Mario's help.
Gotta split,
Angel
Posted by Angel Zobel-Rodriguez at September 5, 2006 11:14 AM