What a Busy Week!

This week has been a busy and eventful week. Stella started her 13 year long journey to become ‘educated’ and I officially started on my new schedule of working in two houses each day. Bree just went along with the new programme but I am pretty sure she wasn’t quite sure what’s coming and what’s going. All of these must be exhausting for both of them because they are for me.

Stella the Supergirl started school without tears. She wasn’t even frosty to anyone. She was frosty when I started looking after her and she was very frosty when she started at the Kindergarten. Stella’s mum took ages to decide on her little girl’s move to ‘big school’ and because of that Stella missed out on many of the activities design to help ensure a smooth transition. Her parents went along to some activities organized to inform them of the Prep program and to mingle with the parents of other children. Stella didn’t visit the school again until the end term 4. I was absolutely surprised that they actually kept a place for her!

On Tuesday, Stella visited the school for a short time. Only new children were expected on the day. They were divided up into groups and they got to reintroduce themselves to each other, met up with their teacher again and given another tour around the school. Stella’s mum was happy to learn that two other children – siblings in different grades but one is in the same class as Stella, didn’t make it to all of the orientation activities last year. Those kids actually have a legitimate reason – they were still living overseas at the time!

On Wednesday, the official first day of school, Stella came home on a high. She couldn’t stop telling both Bree and I about her day. She said that they didn’t do any reading at all. All they did was play games. I could tell that she was very happy. She spent a day going to school and was then welcomed home by a little tot who was looking forward to playing with her. It was more or less the same on Thursday except that she told me that one of her new friends didn’t believe that she could read and called her a liar.

Today, Stella got home from school looking tired. She was obviously running out of puff. LOL. I swear I saw circles under her eyes. After three and a half days of school, the Supergirl had prematurely morphed into an old lady? I got her out of her school uniform and gave her an early bath because I didn’t think she could make it to the park. After that, all she wanted to do was to chill on the couch. She also wanted Bree to chill on the other couch but the little tot wanted none of it. The tired little girl fell asleep a couple of times. We heard her snoring a little but we had to wake her up because she wasn’t allowed to nap as it was too close to dinner time. I spoke to her mum about Stella being tired, mentioning to her that the first few weeks of Prep are a busy time. She agreed that if Stella falls asleep on the couch again, she should be allowed to nap for no more than 30 minutes for a slight recharge.