Monday Thoughts

  Is it just me, or do you see the resemblance as well?   

Oh well...  I just realized yesterday that next week I'll be in Vegas!  Whoohooo!!! 

Unfortunately, because of this trip, Nicholas will be missing his first day of kindergarten.  I arrive on the day he starts.  My daughter was going to take him, but I'm not quite sure how he is going to behave starting a new school without me being there.  We are going to pretend that his first day of school starts next week on Thursday, instead of Wednesday.  Would be pretty bad if I wrote in his baby book:  "Mommy wasn't able to take you to your first day of kindergarten, because she was gambling in Vegas with Dad."  Lovely, huh?  So, we are going to start a day late.  No biggie.  My other kids have started school much later.

I will never forget the day my oldest started kindergarten.  Poor girl started a week late, and had a broken arm as a souvenir from her trip to the Azores.  There she was in a strange classroom, with kids she had never met before, with a woman (teacher) who would take Mommy's place for the next 4 1/2 hours.  My two older children never went to preschool, so the adjustment was a little harder for them.  I will never forget my daughter's face, as her teacher, Ms. Welcher held her tight from her chair, while poor Lizzy was waving her cast in the air exclaiming, "Mommy!  Don't go...Mommy!!" 

Kindergarten teachers are special people.  I absolutely loved my kindergarten teacher, and I still remember her name.  Miss Maxwell.  She used to call me her "lost lamb" because I was constantly following her around the classroom-I was terribly shy in school.  I must have annoyed the hell out of her.  She was the prettiest woman I knew (except for my mom of course).  She worked with another teacher, Ms. Willett.  Imagine my surprise when I got the letter from my son's school with Nicholas' assigned teacher.  Underneath her name was Ms. Willett.  I cannot believe this woman STILL teaches kindergarten.  My God..  She must be pushing 65 already..  Now I'm curious to see if she is the same woman.

I'm bored to death here at work.  I just packed another box of bunny rabbits I had displayed in my office.  I'm unsure if I should take them home with me, or display them in my new office across the hall.  Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Lolly man is moving any time soon, and it's going to be so annoying sharing an office with him.  Oh well...what can you do.  Perhaps the bunny rabbits will keep him away from me.  He'll be so creeped out by them, that he will stay away, and leave me alone.  I still have that Wizard of Oz calendar.  I can cut out the pictures and hang them on his door..