ch-ch-ch-changes.

i just dropped off the deposit check for the kidlets at their new school.  they will start in early july, so their last days at their current montessori school will be at the end of june.  

i know all of the reasons we made this decision.  it's closer to home (a lot closer).  it's less expensive (significant factor, though i wish it weren't).  it offers a montessori curriculum as well as the possibility of kids who will be in the same elementary environment as ours.  

but.  i am still sad.  i am a deeply loyal person and this school has been our kids' home for the vast majority of their lives.  they've spent way more waking hours there than at our actual home.  the teachers at their school have, for the most part, been encouraging and supportive and nurturing towards our little beans.  both our kids learned to walk there.  emme potty-trained there.  they've taken countless naps and had snacks and lunches and skinned knees and water play.  they've forged friendships and attachments and conducted their own independent little lives.  it's a big deal to say goodbye to all of this.  

but say goodbye we will, in just a few short months.  time keeps moving on, i guess.  it will be amazing to let them sleep for 20 extra minutes in the morning.  it will be incredible to hop in the car and be there in 5 minutes instead of 25.  it will be exciting to foster new relationships for us and them.  it will be huge for justin to be able to do a leg of the pick-up/drop-off, and for me to be able to explore job options closer to home.  

it will be good.  but it's still hard.