Junior Infants: Mission Completed!

I am so proud of my little man I might burst! First off, I can’t believe he only has five days of Junior Infants left, then it’s summer holidays and Senior Infants in September. Where did that year go? Only a little over a year ago, I went back to work and Mr Messer had his very first visit to his new school to meet his Junior Infants teacher and classmates. I remember looking at him in the classroom, thinking he looked so small… And now he’s nearly finished his first year in big school and I can’t help but wonder where did all those months disappear to.

But onto the being a super proud mummy, he got his end of year school progress report yesterday. Mind you, it was only found in his school bag this morning! Top marks on everything, but that’s not what makes me so proud. I knew that, academically speaking, he’s doing great. What made me most proud, was to read how the teachers were describing him as a boy. And his enthusiasm to learn about the world around him.

Cian displays a keen interest in the world around him. He enjoys learning new facts and information through History, Geography and Science.

Well done my little man, you make me so proud every day!

The Thing Called ‘School Logistics’

It has been a summer and autumn of change for us indeed. I went back to full time work in May after a lovely year off with the two Messers. The first thing we had to do was to sort out childcare. Mr Messer was still in Montessori in the mornings, but Missy Messer was at home with me. I wasn’t ready to put the two of them back into the creche as that was one of the reasons why I stopped working and I felt that putting them back in there wouldn’t really make any sense. Another option was to get someone to mind them in our home. Knowing that come September, they would both be in School and Montessori for the morning and I would only need someone for the afternoon made me wonder if I’m ever going to find someone who wants to work full time during the summer and go part time from September…