MargieInTheMorning's Blog

Margie! First of all, congratulations on the newest upcoming addition to your family!!

I remember the feeling of leaving my boys off at daycare or preschool the very first time! A dear lady suggested that the crying my 2nd sond did was due to the fact that he didn't know WHERE I WAS DISAPPEARING TO! Her suggestion worked wonders: I took him to work with me one morning to show him that I didn't disappear into some black hole in his world.

As for your own fears - I can only say this: I hope you find a way to get used to it since if it's not preschool, it may be summer camp, or High School, or college, or his first drive alone after getting his license, or his first date.... I think you get the picture. Unfortunately there is NO CURE for mommyhood!

Good Luck! :)

Margie I been there done that too and it is hard in the beginning but it gets easier as time goes on. I have to admit I cried when I left my girls in kindergarten for the first few days but now that is all gone for me.
My latest was leaving my younger daughter in Boulder,Colorado to go to college by herself and I was 1500 miles away. she will be a senior next year so believe me it does get easier with time.

Good Morning, Margie!! Congratulations on baby #3!

Ah yes, the 1st preschool drop-off...I have put 5 in preschool & it didn't get any easier. However, the meltdown didn't last quite as long with #'s 2,3 & 4. By the time I got to #5 it was like the 1st time all over again. There is just something about knowing it's the LAST time & it's your baby that is heartbreaking.

Oh & when your baby has a baby...now that is something. Seeing my daughter give birth to my granddaughter was a mix of so many emotions I don't have words to describe it.

Bieng a mother is so many things. Joy, pain, fear, elation, pride, disappointment...I could go on & on. There is nothing quite like it & nothing I would change.

Well, I could do without the trips to the E.R., they might as well put our names on the door as much as we're there!!

Good luck to you!!

Margie,
First off Congratulations! I just wanted to let you know I was in your shoes. I have 3 under 5 and this past schoolyear, my middle started preschool. He had never been with anyone but our moms...I remember leaving him that first day and when I said "Goodbye", he wouldn't even look at me. I left the room thinking he hated me, I literally ran through the hallways, got in my van and cried so hard I couldn't breathe. I was so worried he would resent me, that I would come back and he would have lost that "childhood innocence", I was worried that he would be afraid to tell them he needed to use the potty and he'd have an accident. I was mostly worried, though, that he would think I had abandoned him. I was going through some serious Post-Partum Depression and this was rough on me. He is a momma's boy, neither of my girls are as affectionate as he is and I was so afraid of his reaction when I picked him up.

Do you know, I went to pick him up and he actually skipped down the hallway???? He smiled, gave me a big hug and when asked how his day went, his only word was "fun". I thought this had to be some fluke, there was no way, he wasn't as emotional as I was. So, I went through it all the second day and he had even more fun. I was shocked, but relieved that I had done all that worrying for nothing. Now, he wakes up on days that he doesn't go and wants to go. He doesn't even look back when I kiss him goodbye as he lines up with his class, he's too focused on all of the "fun" ahead of him!!!

I wish you luck and just try to make it to your car that

go a head and cry margie, but drop him off and leave right away, dont let him see ya cry. he'll get over it sooner if ya dont hang around

WAIT A MINUTE! I didn't know you were pregnant! How exciting! I totally understand the hormone thing. I was more of a mess with my second baby than I was with the first.
Anyway, I was going to coment on that and forgot! I volenteer at a crisis pregnancy center (not an abortion clinic), and I love to hear about pregnancy - new life growing in the womb... ok, now that I sound like a freak, I'm signing off again. good luck!
Sara

I didn't have a hard time when my girls went to preschool, it was the first time they got on the bus for kindergarten I cried. I was fine with everything else until my oldest joined the Navy. Mommy couldn't help her there LOL. Now I'm crying more because the baby graduates high school this month. I'm just not ready to have an empty nest. Where's my grandbabies when I need them LOL.

Oh Margie it will be fine.I cryed every year when my kids even started school(First day).Yeap even when they were in high school sorry I liked my kids with me.They didn't cry leaving me unless they knew I was going to the store.But it is even harder when they think they are all grown up and leave.Wow that was a tough one for me also but then you grow to get use to it and enjoy their visits.So cry if you wish.No one will think any less of you.It is a heartbreaking thing to see them babies growup..Good luck.

Margie, I remember dropping my oldest daughter off for her first day of school, we walked up to the play yard, as we got closer, I got teary eyed, finally we were at the gate. I looked down at her and she looked up at me and said" mother, what is wrong with you! I will only be gone half a day! Stop blubbering! Now "I love you and get in the car with Dad because I think he's Crying too!! How funny is that!! She is now 25!! She works with me everyday at my business! She claims she remembers that day!!
My goodness, I cried when they got their shots!
Now they make me take their kids to get their shots! And I still cry!!! lol
GOOD LUCK, MARGIE

Wow Margie I thought you had two girls. I guess I was thinking of Mandy. Oh well I do that alot forgive me. Anyway when I took my son to preschool I was a bindle of nerves the entire day. When I picked him up I asked him what he did all day. His answer was Nothing. I said well what did you eat for lunch. "Nothing." Now you know I was frantic. I went back in there and started having a hissy fit. How dare they not feed my child, and why was it he couldn't tell me what he did all day. Well they gave me a copy of the menu for the month, and showed me all of his work he did that day. I felt about 1 inch tall. So just remember when he tells you he did nothing he did alot lol. Don't jump to conclusions.