A Day Most Momentous!

Is that how you spell momentous? No matter. What I am meaning to say is that this day, Tuesday 2nd November 2009 is a day that will remain engrained on the memories of my 3 youngest children forever more.

I decided at the end of last half term to take them out of their school. This decision was one that many people think I am mad for making and cannot understand why I did it, after all we live 100 yards from the school they were at, they didn't need to cross any roads, it was a perfectly good school.

However, I work in another school within the county. My hours are pretty much school hours, and I found myself in an everlasting battle against the clock, the clock that ticked from when I dropped the kids at school to when I started work, or the clock that ticked from when I finished work to when I had to pick up the children. I would race home from work, driving like a woman possessed, wanging the car up onto the drive, jumping out & racing round to school to collect them, and so on ........

SO, just before the end of half term we had news that some children we leaving the school where I worked which presented an opportunity to me, there were places in each of the year groups of my children. If they were there I would have no need to race any more.

I chatted to the teachers, discussed how working in the same school as my children may feel, for me aswell as them, I talked it through with the kids, my husband, friends, my parents. The over-riding opinion was that this would be a good thing, my list of positives outweighed my list of negatives. So I made the arrangements, filled in the forms, put the wheels of change into motion.

Today was their first day.

They are happy.

I am happy!