I just came back from my first time being a Mom Helper in Gleek’s Kindergarten class. It was wonderful to me to see that they ALL wiggle and yell and wander around aimlessly when they should be doing other things. She fits right in, mostly. I wasn’t worried over nothing, but the fixes are much smaller than I was afraid they would be. Just knowing that I will be in her classroom once a week has brightened Gleek’s life considerably. She’s already counting down until my next Mom Helper day.
I think it also helped tremendously that I kept her home from school on Tuesday. She claimed to be sick that day. She wasn’t, but I knew that Monday was a perfectly awful day for her. The awful Monday on the tails of last week’s difficult school days was a bit too much. She really needed a home day to reset and relax. Specifically, she needed a day at home when her older siblings weren’t around to scold her for anything. Tuesday was wonderful and restful for us both. I didn’t have to negotiate kids in and out of the car multiple times and Gleek played happily with Patches for most of the day. On Wednesday she went back to school agreeably because she knew that the luncheon would be in full swing when she came home. Today she hardly even took time to say goodbye before she skipped happily into the building.
We only have 8 more school days before vacation. Hopefully Gleek will have happy ones with no further crises in them.