First Day of School / Back to Work

Everybody did great today! It was Cate's first day in the infant room, Brady's first day in the Early Preschool class, Daddy's first day with an employee on maternity leave, and Mommy's first day back at work. Cate reportedly napped and ate her bottles. Although he got off to a rocky start, Brady stopped crying and started having a great time in class. Dad did, in his own words "ok, it was kind of hectic to begin with." And Mom received a lovely "welcome back" from her colleagues. I was so busy, I didn't have time to be sad!

It was a true comfort to see Ms. Jen in the infant room. It felt great to hand Cate off to her. It was also helpful to see little Grant and Carter happily kicking around in class.

We dropped off Brady in his new classroom first. I held it together despite the fact that Brady's tears started almost immediately and he reached up for me and cried "mama!" It was a little harder in the infant room as I put all Cate's supplies away and asked Daddy if I could hold her before we left. I didn't want to, but I also held it together through the Starbucks drive thru window. The flood gates opened promptly after that. It didn't last very long, and I proudly wore Cate's drool spot on my shoulder the whole way to work!