Top 10 things to know about the first year of preschool

This post is intended for adults, although I'm sure the list might be similar if you ask any 4 year old.

10. Making creative lunches sucks when peanut butter, GoGurt, anything that MAY spill or get your kid dirty is on the list of "We suggest NOT to pack these for kids" that is handed out at the beginning of the year. Daniel has stopped eating his jelly sandwiches all together.
9. The amount of paperwork in the "red folder" to review, fill out or remember can make any scatter brained mom nuts.
8. This may be specific to private schools but I doubt it...the amount of fundraisers and requests for donations is crazy. I have never gone through so many checks in one year.
7. I need to ask my boss to double my days off next year just to account for the amount of days D gets off of school during the year. That's not including X-Mas and Spring break.
6. Teachers and their assistants remember cute shirts you put on your kid, then they mention it to you, then you think you have to keep it up and continue to dress him in cute shirts and you drive yourself nuts at night picking out outfits.

5. Kids pick up the good and the bad. Everyday D brings something new home, usually a new attitude.

I'm sad mommy

I'm angry

I'm happy

I'm excited

I'm smiling one last time and then I will lose it. He did!

4. When your kid's teacher is like 8 years younger than you, slimmer, blonder and more tanned you can't help but to step it up at every parent/teacher conference with a cleaner pony tail, some lip gloss and a pair of non-stained pants. Especially if hubby is coming along.
3. Every notification that says "The Health office would like you to be aware that we have (insert illness, virus here) in our school, please ensure your child is vaccinated" makes you want to pull them out ASAP and disinfect the entire house.
2. Get ready to be invited to tons of parties. You'll be excited at first until your budget takes a beating and right in the middle of a Saturday you have to drive your kid to a party and stay there because that's what good parents do. Your entire day is shot to hell. Your kid is cranky and tired afterwards and wants the toys he just saw his friend open. FUN TIMES!
1. You'll meet tons of moms that become great friends because they have done this roller coaster the year before and you'll cling to them and collect their numbers so you can one day ask them "what kind of a F#ing flower are we supposed to bring again?" or "when is this SH$%# due?"

I survived the first year of preschool. Tomorrow is his last day of the year. Now for the summer...