Finger"less" Momma!

Well, I guess I don't have enough going on in my life so I decided it was time, time to cut my finger tip off!!! Yep, that's right clean off. The vision that goes around in my head, often at night while "trying" to fall asleep, is a gruesome one. It makes my stomach churn just thinking about it. All in the name of hair. Contrary to what one might think, I did not do this little deed while "cutting" the actual hair, no no, that would be to boring of a story. I was opening a little squeeze bottle for a perm, and instead of finding a pin like you supposed to use, I was trying to stick the tip of one of my scissor blades into a tiny little hole! Well, lo and behold it slipped and kung-foo style, karate chopped my little buddy clean off. Luckily the ordeal didn't hurt one bit, in fact I probably wouldn't have even have known that it happened, but seeing the tip fall to the counter was confirmation that indeed I had become fingertipless!! What is so much worse than the fact that this is not fun, will be a long recovery and so annoying, is the fact that it's such a burden!! It's hard to work at home and in the salon and learning to re-cut hair using middle and ring finger is not my idea of reinventing a new "style"!!! Ugggg, oh well, for now, I look back and think well, I sure hope I won't do that again, but it's a perk that comes with the wonderful world of hair!

To Preschool or Not to Preschool, that is the question

Gracie has been in preschool now for the last year and a half. We chose that preschool back when she was just a little over 2. Seems like so long ago, she was so much littler (sp., even a word?), not potty trained, was just starting to muster up some "deep" conversations and hardly socialized. Based upon all this, we found a great little place in Pleasanton, that met our needs financially as well as spiritually and comfortability with teachers, classrooms, criteria, academics, play, etc. Well, fast forward a year and a half later and our shy, diaper wearing 2 year old, is a vivacious, stubborn, sweet, lovable, strong-willed, chatty, friendly, imaginative, goin' in the potty all by herself 31/2 year old. Those are just the adjectives right off the top of my head!!! She has done so well in school and I believe it has really helped her to blossom into the little girl she has become! Which is why this decision is so hard on us.

My thought was for her to always in her 3rd. and final year of preschool, to go 3 days a week, to prepare her into the "scary" world of Kindergarten. Well, her school now, will not allow us to choose the days in which she attends their fine establishment, apparently all the Mom's in Pleasanton are stay at home Mom's that don't have to have their kids revolve around their work schedule! All that aside, okay, time to make some important decisions do we

A. keep her at her 2 day a week schedule and hope that it will be enough to prepare her physically, mentally all that for the big 1st day of Kindergarten? Or....

B. move her all together to a school with a more flexible schedule therefore fulfilling our plan of having her go 3 days a week.

As you can imagine, both these come with a lot of considerations; money, a big one, considering the time right now; moving her away from all she knows in a school, teachers, friends, schedule, etc.; and finally, our comfortability with all this!

It has been on my mind a lot lately and trying to decide what is best is really tough. I am reminded that she is adaptable and will probably be just fine in whatever we decide to do and that God too will provide in whatever decision we make. I just fear that these decisions only get harder and more important as time moves forward. I can't imagine having this very conversation in about oh let's say 14 years about choosing COLLEGE!!!! Oy vay!!!

We have decided for her to go to another preschool starting in the summer and then continuing through fall of this year into the following spring. I'm still struggling with the decision and worrying financially how we will make it work. But, time will tell and nothing is permanent, so all we can do now is see what the future will hold and try to remember that this is only the beginning!