Out of the club

So next week I'm officially out of the SAHM (Stay at home mom) club as I will be heading back to my teaching job. I'm sad, excited, nervous, apprehensive and hopeful. I'm sad that my baby girl is 6 months old already and is going to start a new chapter in her life by going to day care. I'm excited to be returning to teaching as I really do love my career choice...and I'm excited that my paychecks will be back to "normal" so we can start to save for Jentry's college and live a little easier. I'm nervous that Jentry will hate us for dropping her off with strangers for 8 hours...but we will always return to get her as fast as we can! I'm also nervous about her not knowing what is going on since she's been with me since she came home from the hospital. One other thing that makes me nervous is having someone else watch my baby...I know it will be good for her to have interaction with the 7 other infants in her room and 2 "teachers", but NO ONE can do it quite like her Mommy can!! I'm apprehensive about going back to work after walking out of my room on February 16th and not returning until August...and my old room is gone, the school I teach at is being renovated and my classroom got demolished and I'm not sure where any of my stuff is...so that really scares me. I'm hopeful that Jentry will love her "teachers" at daycare and will learn to share and play nice with the others in her "class."

I'm working on getting EVERYTHING of Jentry's labeled so that when she does go to daycare next week nothing will accidentally come up "missing" I've ordered labels for her stuff and am working on getting her blanket and bottle bag embroidered...I just don't want her "favorite" things to come up "lost" Probably just a silly first time mom thing, but I'm pretty anal so I think I'd be like this even if it were my 10th kid...haha!

I'm sure some of you are thinking we are horrible parents for making this choice, but we both knew from the beginning that I didn't want to be a true SAHM, I really like my job and we really want Jentry to experience more than just being with us...even though we are SURE she will prefer being with Mommy and Daddy over going to "school" We also knew what was best for our situation and me going back to work is the best choice for us and we hope it will be a good choice for Jentry as well.