Goodbye, Hello

My husband will be the first to tell you that I never make things easy. And this is just another one of those instances of making things difficult (on myself mostly). So a couple of weeks before returning to work, which is traumatic enough in itself, we decide to make a daycare/preschool switch.

For those of you who have ever talked daycare with us, you would know that we have had nothing but love for the Eagan North Kindercare (despite a few bumps in the road of course). We had been sending Mason there since he was 12 weeks old. So why change...

1. We knew that we would need to change the boys' daycare once Mason would start Kindergarten (which is Fall 2010 provided he is ready to go). We knew that we could not have one kid in Eagan and the other in Farmington. The more we thought about it, the more we realized that it made more sense to transition Mason now to a new place (since he would be there before and after Kindergarten) so that he doesn't have a new daycare and start Kindergarten all at once. And that way we wouldn't have to change Cooper's care either.

2. Have you seen this place? We fell in love the minute we walked in and their curriculum is phenomenal.

So on Friday, July 10, we said an emotional goodbye to friends and staff at the Eagan North Kinder Care. I hadn't intended to be the one that picked Mason up on his last day because I knew I would be an emotion wreck, but it turned out I was done with work early and had to be a grown up and say the goodbyes, tears and all. The tears didn't let up either once we got home I read the note below from Mason's teacher Ms. Jackie. I just hope that the teachers at Anna's Banana's love Mason as much.

On Wednesday, July 15, the boys said hello to Anna's Bananas Daycare and Preschool. Mason joined in the fun with the four year olds and Miss Rachel in the Coyote room. Cooper was welcomed into the Bunnies room with Ms. Anitra and four other babies.

I love that we got art on his first day!