{"id":940,"date":"2007-09-13T15:59:24","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T19:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2007\/09\/first-day-of-preschool\/"},"modified":"2007-09-13T15:59:24","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T19:59:24","slug":"first-day-of-preschool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2007\/09\/first-day-of-preschool\/","title":{"rendered":"First Day of Preschool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/images\/carolyn\/20070913_preschool.jpg\" width=\"342\" height=\"500\" alt=\"20070913_preschool.jpg\"\/><\/center><br \/>\nMy baby started school today.  No longer a toddler, she&#8217;s officially a preschooler.<\/p>\n<p>I was not prepared.  I had her clothes all laid out, my clothes all laid out, we left the house on time&#8230;but she&#8217;s been so excited about the <em>idea<\/em> of school that I expected her to run happily into the classroom and never look back.  I would be free to go run errands without dealing with the carseat and have a couple of hours to relax, clean the house, knit&#8230;whatever.  Instead, I had to peel her arms from around my legs and give her a firm push towards the blocks the teachers had put out for the kids to play with.  And then I nearly lost it when I saw her bottom lip quivering and her eyes filling up with tears.  I don&#8217;t think it helped that nearly half the kids in her class were already sobbing.<\/p>\n<p>I barely made it out to the car before I completely lost it.  They gave each parent a &#8220;first day survival kit&#8221; with a poem about how hard leaving is, and it contained a tissue, a Hershey&#8217;s kiss, and a tea bag.<\/p>\n<p>You know what, though?  She loved it!  According to Carolyn (who apparently can recognize her name spelled out &#8211; who knew?) preschool was &#8220;really, really, really fun!&#8221; and she can&#8217;t wait to go back next week.  I, on the other hand, haven&#8217;t quite recovered!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My baby started school today. No longer a toddler, she&#8217;s officially a preschooler. I was not prepared. I had her clothes all laid out, my clothes all laid out, we left the house on time&#8230;but she&#8217;s been so excited about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carolyn-firsts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}