School Starts...and Vacation Ends

Today was SB's first day of preschool. It was such a bittersweet moment. I'm off work all of this week so both The Man and I were able to drive her to school and pick her up together. The dropoff was amazingly easy. We introduced her to her teacher and sat her down next to another little girl who was playing with dolls and she promptly forgot about us.

On the way home we fantasized about how we were going to spend the morning. Keeping in mind, we only had about 2 hours before we had to leave to go pick SB up. But apparently in those 2 hours I expected to go through all of SB's toys and pack up all the old ones she's outgrown, mow the lawn, go to the mall and Target, write out an entire exercise prescription for someone, run, walk the dog, and do some laundry. Yeah, that's not even wishful thinking, that's downright delusional. But I did get through most of her toys.

When we went to get her, she was bawling. According to her teacher, she just started crying out of nowhere about 15 minutes before we got there. I guess she realized that we weren't there and didn't know what to do with herself. But at least the first two hours were fun for her!

This weekend also marked the end of a very tiresome "vacation" at the beach. Apparently SB did not like sleeping in the hotel because she was up just about every hour of the night, whining. In fact, she probably whined and cried more this weekend than any other full week of her life. It was great.

Besides all the whining and crying, and lack of sleep, the beach trip was actually quite nice. The weather was a bit chilly for sitting on the sand in our bathing suits, but it was perfect for putting our feet in the water so that's what we did. I ran on the beach for the first time in my life- only about 3 miles, probably, but it was a nice, relaxing workout. Except for the 30mph winds, of course.

All in all, it's nice to be back home. And to have some time off before returning to work.