Backtracking- September 11th: Getting Ready for Day One

September 11th- I spent the better part of this day scrambling to get everything ready for the kids’ first day of preschool. I needed to make sure I had a bag of extra clothes for each kid, a box (shoe box size) decorated with photos of themselves and our family for each kid, as well as one framed 4 x 6 family photo. The clothing part was easy, and the framed photo wasn’t too tough, but the box decorating project took a considerable amount of time. In hindsight, it probably would have been much easier and faster to just do them myself. But I wanted the kids to be as involved as they could be. I let them help affix the tape as we wrapped the boxes with colored tissue paper (much easier said than done for a 3.5 year old), and I let them look thorough the collection of photos I’d printed and choose which ones they wanted on their own boxes. Buba was happy to let me crop and tape the photos on his box while he was off playing, but Tiny wanted to be involved every step of the way. This was especially tricky, because the photos needed to be arranged just so in order to fit them all on. It was also very tricky because she was quite resistant to my guidance. But eventually, we got the job done.