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to me, another way of looking at this is that you are transitioning earlier instead of later. Either way, she has to do it.

This is a really good point - transitioning her now means you don't have to do it when she starts kindergarten, right?

One of my students informed me after class today that the way I was teaching something isn't the best way to teach it, because the way he learned it when he took this class in high school was better. (He showed me the way he learned it. It makes things much more complicated than they need to be, and, once we discussed some of the examples some more, I realized that he didn't actually understand it as well as he thought he did -- he could do everything perfectly on paper, but really couldn't connect the concepts to the notation.)

transitioning her now means you don't have to do it when she starts kindergarten, right?

Presuming she gets into that school. I'm not really sure what our odds are on that, whether it's an automatic in (as they do for siblings), or whether it just gives us an extra weighting for the lottery.

As much as she loves her current school and teachers, I do try to remember that I barely remember anything about my preschool years, and barely remember kindergarten. Also, Emmett has only the haziest memories of preschool and kindergarten.

Whereas his first grade is vivid in part because it was part of a continuity at the same school with the rest of his elementary school years.

Sean, you should run away from cleaning and come have dinner with us. I say this without having a clue if plans have been made for dinner. My mom probably is cooking. Hm. Maybe I should ask her. Anyway, my point is that I miss you and Drew is home and we'd both love to see you.

I told Drew on the phone I already have plans tonight, but I miss you guys too, so let's do dinner in the next few days or something. My schedule is pretty flexible right now.

transitioning her now means you don't have to do it when she starts kindergarten, right?

Presuming she gets into that school.

But kindergarten means a transition no matter what, right? I mean, there is no kindergarten where she currently has day care, is there?

Also, tomorrow I take the pushup test to see which track I follow, and Saturday I start the pushup program.

I cooked a nice dinner for TCG tonight and baked my first cheesecake. Both seem to be a success.

But kindergarten means a transition no matter what, right? I mean, there is no kindergarten where she currently has day care, is there?

Correct. But if we don't stay at the same school for kindergarten then we're making her do two transitions in a year instead of one.

Anyway, the financial benefit is threefold: It costs less overall; it covers five days a week instead of three; I'd be free to look for other work. All very significant. Plus lunch is covered there (not so at her current place).

And if it's an automatic in to this school for Kindergarten, that would eliminate a year of stressing about the school lottery. (Y'all remember what a bitch that was for placing Emmett. I'd rather forego that.)

It'd be a no-brainer if Matilda wasn't extremely bonded with her teachers and classmates. She's very happy being there in that environment.

And I'm reasonably certain that a transition will be difficult. She won't be happy about going five days a week. She won't be happy about new teachers and kids. She won't be happy with the new routine. I'm pretty sure we're talking about a solid month of crying about going to school if we change.

The outside, longshot negative is that she will simply be unhappy there for the coming year and yearn to go back. She does have that tendency a bit, as she still talks about going back to her original daycare and how much she misses her daycare provider there.

I'll take her with me to talk to them tomorrow and I hope she'll get a chance to mingle with the kids and meet the teacher. That might be a little bellweather.

Ugh, makes my stomach knot thinking about making a choice that I know is going to make her seriously unhappy and stressed out for a while.

I'll talk to Emmett's godmother tonight too and try to get her take. She's wise in these things.

I might try to get EM's input too, though she and Emmett just took off for Boston. Yo, Bostonians, if you see somebody that looks like Emmett this weekend, it could be him.