bryantkids0409: Look out preschool here she comes......

I am full of so many different emotions right now. Emily needs help overcoming her shyness. We know that it's time for her to go to preschool and be without her family to help her with that. But that doesn't make this any easier. I've cried twice tonight because reality is starting to sink in. This afternoon I brought Emily to her new preschool to see if they had any openings. It's the same school Anthony went to and we all loved it. Ms. Tania, the owner is so nice and so are her teachers. All last school year when we pulled up to the parent pick up line, Emily would ask when she would be five so she could go to school. She got real shy when it was time to meet everyone and wouldn't talk. All the kids that will be in her class were really nice and invited Emily to play. And Ms. Tania's daughter, Sammy will be in Emily's class. Emily told me that Sammy was beautiful.

She was nervous afterwards and said she didn't want to go to preschool because she knows I will miss her and she doesn't want to talk to strangers or "mans." Boy is she right. I will miss her. I feel safer leaving her then I did leaving Anthony the first time because we are already familiar with the school. I wasn't real happy with the first preschool Anthony went to and took him out and moved him to the school Emily will be attending. But sending Emily to school with be harder on Mommy because when Anthony started school, I was working during the day and didn't get to see him until after I work. I've been home with Emily for almost three years so this will be a major adjustment. I've cried twice so far tonight.

Tonight Aunt Kim came with us to Walmart for some back to school shopping for Anthony. He needed school supplies and new clothes. I let Emily pick out her own lunch box. She won't need them for school, but I got her a new pack of crayons, colored pencils, and washable markers to do her "homework" with. Now she's excited and wants to know if she can start preschool tomorrow. She's been working on her letters tonight and she's doing a great job. Emily is the sweetest, most loving, hard headed child on this planet and I'm not ready for her to grow up yet.

PC Metals....we took Daddy's old car to the crusher today

I called Grandpa to give him an update about how we were doing with the car. The first place we tried to take the car, we pulled into the parking lot and it looked abandoned. We didn't see any crushed cars anywhere. Since Anthony had been before with Grandpa, I asked if anything looked familiar and if he thought we were at the right place. He looked around and said, " I don't know. Last time I was here there was a really tall building and piles of crushed cars. But I guess it could have changed since then. Grandpa reminded me that Anthony was a lot younger back then so the building probably did look tall. We were in the right place. We just had to drive around to find this "tall building," which turned out to be a trailer with a tall deck. Grandpa told me about the time he took Anthony. He was maybe three or four and thought Anthony would have a fun getting to seeing a car get crushed. Grandpa said he thinks it was the red van that Daddy drove for a little while that they took. When Anthony saw what they did to Daddy's van, he started crying and said, "I could have fixed that."