Best laid plans
Katie had her junior kindergarten orientation yesterday. She was up at the crack of dawn, dressed herself in her Easter dress and ballet slippers to be all ready for school. We convinced her to wear something else just in case she wanted to play on the school's playground, she thought that was a splendid idea. C took her to her new school, I think she'll do fine there. It'll be difficult for her at first since she doesn't yet speak French but it will come.
However C found out that her first official day has been pushed back to September 13th, a delay of only a week but a week that will be filled with tears since Katie really wants to go to school each and every day. However the delay turns out to be a blessing in disguise since we also found out her bus is totally FUBAR. In May they told us it would be just fine to have the bus pick her up and drop her off at the sitter's, yesterday - SEPTEMBER 1st - we find out they won't do it because her sitter - who lives less than 2 blocks away - lives ont he wrong side of the street and would therefore be in a different school district. Had we known back in May we would have signed her up for the afterschool care program that the school offers but now it's full. They put us on the waiting list as a priority case but really, who else would be stupid enough to tamper with their daycare situation the week before school starts? It's unlikely a place will come open.
I should be upset about this, I want to be upset about this, but I'm not. Oh, I'm annoyed, we're going to have to do a lot of running around to hopefully find a workable situation in the next week but I have this highly unrealistic and yet unshakable feeling that there's a reason for this. What it could be I have no freakin' idea, yet the feeling persists.
My baby girl with her humongeous school bag
So I guess we'll see what happens next. I may well wig out at the midpoint of next week if we don't have some arrangements in place but for now it's just a little bump.
However C found out that her first official day has been pushed back to September 13th, a delay of only a week but a week that will be filled with tears since Katie really wants to go to school each and every day. However the delay turns out to be a blessing in disguise since we also found out her bus is totally FUBAR. In May they told us it would be just fine to have the bus pick her up and drop her off at the sitter's, yesterday - SEPTEMBER 1st - we find out they won't do it because her sitter - who lives less than 2 blocks away - lives ont he wrong side of the street and would therefore be in a different school district. Had we known back in May we would have signed her up for the afterschool care program that the school offers but now it's full. They put us on the waiting list as a priority case but really, who else would be stupid enough to tamper with their daycare situation the week before school starts? It's unlikely a place will come open.
I should be upset about this, I want to be upset about this, but I'm not. Oh, I'm annoyed, we're going to have to do a lot of running around to hopefully find a workable situation in the next week but I have this highly unrealistic and yet unshakable feeling that there's a reason for this. What it could be I have no freakin' idea, yet the feeling persists.
My baby girl with her humongeous school bag
So I guess we'll see what happens next. I may well wig out at the midpoint of next week if we don't have some arrangements in place but for now it's just a little bump.
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