CommuterMom: The First Day

I’ve been thinking a lot about what it is going to be like for NewMom the first day she takes NewGirl to school. I’ll never forget how small CommuterGirl looked when we went for our first visit. We had planned to visit together; but the infants were going on a walk so I sent her along while I stayed behind and finished the enrollment paperwork. Well, that was the idea — instead I sat on one of the little chairs in her new classroom and cried.

CommuterGirl was almost 4 months old and I was convinced that her first day at school without me would be a disaster…she was a breastfed baby and wouldn’t take a bottle very well; we had stopped having my mother babysit since the majority of the 2 hours would be spent with CommuterGirl screaming louder than we could imagine until she was back in mommy’s arms. She even screamed when I left the room while she was with Daddy.

On the first day of school CommuterDad “just happened to be at home” (yes, I have a great husband who knew I’d need a shoulder to cry on), so we dropped her off together and went out for lunch and ran some errands. Four hours later we went back to school to find a happy little girl who hadn’t cried once, drank a whole bottle, and had a “great time,” according to her teachers. That was the beginning of CommuterGirl proving me wrong.