First Days of School....Yay?

When you look at facebook this time of year, the feed is covered with adorable pictures of smiling kids excited to start their first day of school. In my reality, my kids dread the first day of school. And if I'm being honest, most days of school. No matter how much we talk about the positives, yada, yada, yada....they ain't buyin' it!

Evie just moved up at her daycare this morning. There were two possible teacher choices: J or C. Sullivan had both and used to call "J" his best friend. That was one of his happiest years. I'm pretty sure no kid has ever called "C" their best friend. So of course, we didn't get J. Queue me taking Evie in for her first morning and as I'm sitting her in her new seat trying to show her the new places with her name, her teacher just starts spouting things to me: Where is her nap mat?, she needs more wipes, I need a picture of her for the wall, their own cups aren't allowed in "my house". I felt taken off guard and poor Evie looked terrified. Evie's last teacher was sweet and kind and loving and the shock was pretty extreme for both of us. Please send some positive thoughts for my sweet girl.

Sullivan starts school on Friday. I've met his teacher, so I'm not worried about her personality, just the normal first day jitters and transition.

First days of school are hard. Maybe I should post a picture of all of us at the end of the first day.

Heart hurting momma.

*Lunchtime update
I texted Evie's previous teacher to ask if she could give me an update, and she said it seemed that Evie was doing well. She seemed happy, ate her lunch, was napping on her mat...definitely made me feel better. Mommas can worry, can't we?