Monday, October 2, 2006 by Amy
Riley had an absolute blast at school today. I'm really proud of her. As I expected, she's hanging out with the older girls (thankfully not boys yet) who can talk more. When I came to pick her up, she told me to go home by myself because she was staying at school. I am pleasantly surprised by how this is all going. I really expected a battle. This school is very well-ordered and nurturing and every child is valued. I guess that's the difference between wanting to go to school and hating it. There is a mandatory back-to-school meeting tomorrow evening where they are going to demonstrate several Montessori activities and talk about the philosophy. The only thing is that children are not supposed to come. That means that either Rudi or I will go. I think that Rudi should go because I am already aware of the theories and activities. Plus Rudi doesn't want to watch the kids anymore, which brings me to my next story...
I worked last night, and Rudi says that it did not go well. Of course, if you sit on your duff and expect the children to watch themselves, it's naturally not going to go well. So he came in to Starbucks and told me that he is not going to watch them anymore, and that I had better put my notice in before my next shift (which really isn't giving notice, now is it?). We'll see if he is just throwing a tantrum, as he tends to do, or if he will watch them while I work out my two weeks, or if I even have to quit at all. Maybe if he hadn't bought a car already, we wouldn't need the extra money. But you didn't hear that from me.
