Hard School Decision

As most of you know my baby boy, Ricky is going to be 5 late July. First of all I can't believe he's going to be 5. It seems just like yesterday we were bringing him home for the first time. This year I have to make one of the hardest decisions regarding Kindergarten. Will I put him in and let him be the youngest or let him mature a year and be one of the oldest. Against my husbands wishes I am holding him back a year. I do think he is a very smart boy and very sociable but I feel an extra year to mature will be good for him. Hey he'll be going to school basically all his life so why rush it?

So you would think the end of my stresses and decision making would be done, right? NO! So I thought I had it all planned out and he would go 2 days a week till he hits 5 and than he'll go 3 and when he goes to Kinder he'll go 5 days. Those were my plans, but I hit a wall. The preschool he goes to doesn't give the choice of 3 days but only offers transitional for 5 year olds. It's 5 days a week, but only 1/2 days. I felt so defeated when I learned this, but wanted him to stay at the same preschool because he's been there since he was 2 and we absolutely love it. Okay the fact that it's 5 minutes away helps also. So this morning I committed my son to 5 days a week with the paperwork and a hefty non refundable registration fee.

Why is this decision so hard for me? I knew that when I had him he would go to school 5 days a week eventually, but why did it come so fast.

To top it all off I also committed my almost 2 year old daughter, Hana to 2 days a week.

It's bittersweet because i'm excited about my 2 days where I have a couple of hours of free time, but it also means in just a blink she too will be going to school 5 days a week.

My babies are growing so fast and there isn't a way to stop it!!!