Peel her off of us

That's the slogan for morning drop-offs. Anna's grip is quite strong; I was glad this morning her teachers are female as she inadvertantly almost pulled my shirt off while I was trying to get away.

This monkey business started up again a few weeks ago, though I can't remember if there was any one incident that charged it. She starts asking even before she goes to bed if she has to go to school the next morning. Just to see if our responses are still a consistent YES.

Frankly they haven't been consistent yes because it's summer and there's travel, etc so sometimes she gets "not today". Also she doesn't quite have the swing of weekends yet so for 2 days straight in her little mind she doesn't have to go to school. In her mind she may be wondering how she can keep pulling that off. We've told her no school on the weekend but not sure she's absorbing what that really means.

Anyway it sucks but here we are again. After next week's trip to Colorado she will have 3 weeks left in her summer class and then into a new permanent one for fall. She'll either love that or hate it worse but we're bracing ourselves.

Let's face it, she gave up her control freak car seat scream fests. The kid's gotta attempt it somewhere else.

Boooooo!