Tomorrow my son starts preschool and our lives will be changed forever. Every Tuesday and Thursday he will have someplace important to be for three hours. The fact that he rarely gets enough sleep (his choice) will actually matter. He will do things that I know very little about on a regular basis. This is a big difference from staying at home with me or spending the day with Gram and Pap.

He'll meet children I don't know, and they will teach him things I don't WANT him to know. He'll love it or hate it and I won't be able to do a lot about it.

He's not quite old enough for three-year-old preschool because his birthday falls at the end of September. Fortunately, the program he is joining has a special class for kids with birthdays in September and October (they are the "Busy Bees"). It's a very well respected program, and it's not easy to get in (see my entry about it - click here). It's run by my own church. We've attended an Open House to meet his teachers and we stopped by to look at the classroom again after Sunday School this week. He had a great time at Open House and seemed to be looking forward to playing with the toys again, but since then has started saying that he doesn't like preschool or doesn't want to go. He pretty much does that with everything, but I still worry.

Wish us luck.

I'm scared!