First Day of Kindergarten - To do list for MOMS!

So this blog is not about how to prepare your child for kindergarten. I have two munchkins who are having their very first day next Wednesday... and their biggest worry seems to be how I will spend my time without them! They have spent the last two weeks preparing ME for Kindergarten!

I have done what everyone says not to do (of course) and I have let them see how sad I am that this special time in our lives is soon going to be over. I have enjoyed being at home with my twins these last four years more than I have ever enjoyed any other time in my life. There have been lots of hard times too of course since being a stay at home mom is a tremendously hard job, but memory is good to us and those tough moments seem to fade... leaving in their wake lots of happy, funny and silly rememberings.

We have had some serious conversations the last two weeks about the fact that the kids will be in different classrooms. There have been a few fears (my own as well as theirs) but overall I know this is the right decision for my two individuals. After all, every other brother and sister who are not twins have to face school alone. At least these two will be able to see each other at recess and any joint times their classes will merge (assemblies, special events and field trips).

So the last two weeks during our tough conversations I have become misty eyed, and morose a few times.
I have covertly hugged their special cuddly toys in my most sad moments. I cannot help but mourn for the end of their babyhood. I know once they go to school we will be on a track we cannot get off until they are graduating high school and out of the house! Why does the time goes so fast!

At the store this week as we were buying school supplies the kids were singing and playing in the cart all the while thinking up all the games and fun things I will now have to play on my own (since they will be busy all day at Kindergarten). I have a list of things to do that I have been assured are OK for me to do alone while they are busy.

When we were in the aisle with the water bottles I saw a woman with a very full cart and a teen-aged girl walking down the other side. She stopped and we exchanged sad and knowing glances for I could tell she way saying goodbye to her baby in the same but far more permanent way than I was saying goodbye to my babies.

Here is my list in no particular order of my to-dos to keep myself busy during Kindergarten hours!

• wash the clothes
• play robot (you only need 1 person to play robot mom)
• make playdoh (not play with it make more)
• bake muffins
• wash the floors
• do puzzles
• make cards using crayons but NO stickers
• work at momstown
• sing the abcs and twinkle star
• read books
• play hopscotch
• cook dinner 

It is a sad fact of having twins that these milestones seem doubly hard! Hopefully with this list and working at my momstown I will have more than enough to occupy my days until the best kids in the world come home to play with me again!