Description:With my year of maternity leave over, I had to go back to work which meant you needed to start daycare. I knew it was going to be tough for me but though you were so social that you would not have a problem. We started transitioning you 2 weeks before I had to be back at work. The first day we both went and stayed about an hour. You crawled around, played with the toys and had a great time. The second day, I left you for an hour alone. When I left, you were visiting happily with the kids. I went and wandered around downtown and constantly had this sense that I was missing something, I wasn't used to being alone in the day without you! When I went back to get you, the minute I walked in the door, I heard you crying. I rushed in and you were curled up in your caregivers lap, sobbing in a way I've never heard. My heart broke in pieces and I started bawling as well. I knew it would be tough, just not that tough. During the next couple of weeks, you warmed up to it and now, after a month, you are banging the gate impatiently when we arrive! You still wish I would stay but love it just the same. You are lucky to get to go to such a wonderful daycare center and your caregiver even told us the other day that you are the easiest child she has ever looked after. I'm so proud of us both for making it through this tough transition! August 14, 2006 11 months
What a pretty layout! Love the papers and I especially loved the journaling. I remembering going through that transition twice as well and it's tough but it does get better!
