My daughter is about to start pre-school tomorrow.  I’ve been excited/dreading this change all summer.  I’m so glad that my daughter is going to have this opportunity.  She’ll get to do yoga, take art and music classes, and well, learn stuff. Some of her friends are going to the same school which makes it even better (how cute is that?).  And since I basically didn’t meet another child until I set foot in my kindergarten class, and I had never ever heard of a downward facing dog until I was in my mid-twenties, I feel pretty confident that my husband and I are giving our daughter a pretty good start in life.  But here’s the thing, I’ve basically accepted that our chances of getting her there on time are 0%.  Her school requires a bit of travel.  A fifteen-minute walk followed by a bus ride.  I know, I realize there are some people who walk six days on their hands to vote, this isn’t a big deal in the scheme of things, but this is my family we’re talking about.  We couldn’t seem to manage getting her to our local daycare on time just a few blocks away.  Add mass transit into the mix and our mornings are likely to consist of mismatched shoes, forgotten lunches and strings of curse words.  I really don’t want my daughter to be the kid who shoes up at the tail end of the “hello song” every single day.  Nor do I want her to start saying “dammit” – which is bound to happen if I’m running for the bus every morning realizing her lunch is sitting on the kitchen counter.  What do you do in that situation?  Give her ten bucks and tell her to order Chinese?  Change is good.  Change is good with kids, it means milestones – stretching limits, enjoying more together as a family.  But right now, I’m just not convinced that change involving a bus is going to be so good.  We’ll see how it goes.  Please wish us luck.

What do you do if you forget your kids lunch? Give them ten bucks and tell them to order Chinese?