It’s difficult to imagine sending my child to school at the age of 11 months, but since the program is called “school”, I’ll play along. In reality, the program is a well planned day care with a 3:1 child/teacher ratio. Regardless, it broke my heart to leave Lucy behind, even if just for 3 short hours. She sensed what was happening and broke into tears as soon as I made a motion to hand her to one of the teachers. When I started to leave, the screams became unbearable.

I stuck around in the hallway for a few minutes. The crying stopped and when I snuck a glance through the window, she seemed interested in a wooden toy. The teachers said she wasn’t truly happy until they went outside. That’s my nature girl!

So for the next few months I’m going to be taking her to school twice a week for 3 hours at a time. I hope it gets better.