Mental Health Day

I have taken tomorrow off of work for a day off. Not because I have an appointment, not because Ella's sick, and not because I have to drive someone to the airport...just for me. Although I am planning on running many errands tomorrow. I run a lot of errands in the afternoon, but it's completely different with Ella in tow. I can't fully enjoy all of my shopping desires when she's in the cart begging me to take her to see the toys. So, I plan on shopping and also registering Ella for Kindergarten tomorrow. They start the registration early. But I realize that they need to plan for next year.

I can't believe that my baby's old enough to be going to kinder next year! She'll be one of the younger ones, but I wouldn't dream of putting her in preschool again for another year. I think she'd be bored out of her mind! She'll be attending our local elementary school. I'm happy that at some point it will not cost us a thing. Although next year I have to pay to extend her Kinder to all day. It's kind of a sham, but it's cheaper than what I pay now for preschool. Kinder at Willow Creek elementary is only half day, but they have a "kinder enrichment" for parents who need all day. Although I don't really work a full day, her school day would end at 11:45 and there's no way that I could pick her up. Here's a link to Willow Creek on greatschools. It sounds like a great school and we're very excited.

Whit and I have plans to go to the Colorado Symphony on Saturday night. Whit's niece is going to babysit Ella at her house. It's for our own piece of mind that a grown up is present. I know that we probably don't seem like the type to buy tickets to the symphony (although Whit and I are truly music lovers), and we actually didn't buy them. The parents of one of my students play in the Symphony and they had extra tickets. One of the perks of my job. The parents are extremely generous. Extremely. In fact, we have fabulous hockey tickets for next month courtesy of another parent. It's a different parent population than I'm used to, but I can get used to it.