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Have just made my first pacekd lunch. I feel like a proper grown up.

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KewcumbersRoastingOnAnOpenFire · 12/01/2009 22:56

Would I sound ridiculously sentimental if I say I had a lump in my throat? How did my baby get old enough to go to nursery school and ned a packed lunch? And how is it that despite not being around for the first year of his three years that I feel anxious about his move out into to wider world without me or his Nan or his CM metaphorically holding his hand.

I feel like one of those suffocating mothers who thinks that only she can look afetr her child adequately and keeping him tied to my leg for the next 15 years (though my office might find that a bit odd)

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load · 12/01/2009 23:00

Kew, what did you make?

DandyLioness · 12/01/2009 23:02

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KewcumbersRoastingOnAnOpenFire · 12/01/2009 23:07

egg sandwich (as requested by DS), apple, little box of raisins, little cheese portion and a petit filou. And a bottle of water.

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load · 13/01/2009 00:16

Thats sounds lovely. He is getting so grown up now.

KristinaM · 13/01/2009 00:24

oh you mums of PFBs

i am suprised that you haven't posted a few photos of him to have us all sobbing with you

the only cure is for you to have another couple and then you will be desperate to pack them off to nursery . besides, aren't you missing have a lovely Sw around the house?

how is little D enjoying nursery?

zazen · 13/01/2009 00:29

Oh well done Kew. That's lovely - I remember the first lunch I sent in with my Dd.
Far too much stuff actually

You're so lucky to be able to send in egg. we have a nut and egg free school as one of the teachers is allergic to egg and one of the children is allergic to nuts.

I hope he had a wonderful day - and that you did also!

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KewcumbersRoastingOnAnOpenFire · 13/01/2009 09:02

this afternoon is his first one K. Just two afetrnoons a week for the next two terms, then 5 mornings from Sept

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Buda · 13/01/2009 09:04

How sweet Kew! Nursery already! Time flies doesn't it.

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KewcumbersRoastingOnAnOpenFire · 13/01/2009 09:08

he went off this morning to CM (my mum is picking him up and taking him to nursery today) with his pac-pac with everything in it. We did have a minor altercation when he wanted to take a suitcase on wheels as well but I managd to persuade him that no-one else would be bringing one to nursery with them! I wonder how long he thinks nursery is going to last?

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KristinaM · 13/01/2009 09:10
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TsarChasm · 13/01/2009 09:16

Aww that's so lovely I can remember the first packed lunch too. Like zazen I put in too much and had a note from the dinner lady teling me to send in less

In a year or so you'll be thinking oh noooo do I have to make another packed lunch?? Aaargh!

Littlefish · 13/01/2009 09:22

Kew - dd has been at nursery for 3 terms now. I still feel weird about making her packed lunch! It's all tied up with her now being influenced by other people, coming home saying things that haven't come from me or dh. And at the same time, I love seeing her friendships develop and love hearing her talk about what she's chosen to do.

When will your ds start school? Is it Sept 2010? I can't believe how quickly he's growing up!

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KewcumbersRoastingOnAnOpenFire · 13/01/2009 11:59

yes Sept 2010 - hoping he will go to preschool 5 mornings from Sept but wanted him to get his feet wet befire then (as it were).

Starts now ie 12noon - feel odd not being there but he'll enjoy my mum taking him and I will do Friday. Feel nervous on his behalf!

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KristinaM · 13/01/2009 13:31

well if he's still there after one and a half hours he must be ok

but how are YOU coping??

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KewcumbersRoastingOnAnOpenFire · 13/01/2009 14:27

he is apparently coping just fine (waved my mum off without her having to stay at all), so no idea whether the rest of the afternoon has gone as weel as no spy in the camp.

He insisted on opening his lunch box to show her the contents when she picked him up from CM so I gather it met with approval!

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hifi · 13/01/2009 14:41

wow kew where did the time go?

KristinaM · 13/01/2009 14:54

but what is ON the lunchbox? have you got a tasteful GTTC one? or a common as muck TTTE or ben10 or spiderman?

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KewcumbersRoastingOnAnOpenFire · 13/01/2009 16:44

lunchbox itself is a plain Ikea one but it is in a Pirates of the carribean back-pack

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stepfordwife · 13/01/2009 16:46

sounds socially acceptable for a 3-year-old, kew
it's all about the lunchbox, dontcha know?
seems to come hot on the heels of being obsessed over which pants they wear, eh?

glad he's had a good first day but, yes, so grown-up! (sob)

KristinaM · 13/01/2009 19:48

sounds perfect! how are you both doing tonight?

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KewcumbersRoastingOnAnOpenFire · 13/01/2009 20:01

we are both exhausted - he is in bed but so wound up I can hear him singing every nursery rhyme he knows (which aren't the same as the ones playing on the CD )

Ma said he was an absolute star and She was very proud of him - she stayed about 5 mins and he went off to sit down in the story circle and waved goodbye to her quite happily when she siad she was going to get some shopping. It does help that the afternoon class is small with only 15 children.

Of course this may be a honeymoon period - I'm taking him myself on Friday.

Despite a great deal of leading questions I have only been able to ascertian that he ate his lunch and painted. Is this it now - is that the level of info I'm likely to get now?

Bless him, he did well for a first day I think.

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noonki · 13/01/2009 20:19

Oh Kew

My DS1 had his first day today too (2 hours in the morning). Felt like I was losing him a little bit. (for some reason I dont want him to know that pink is for girls and all of the other stuff I have kept from him! )

I felt a right plonker as I had a little cry after I left him. He loved it though. When is his b-day?

Littlefish · 13/01/2009 20:23

Yes, I'm afraid that you probably won't get much mnore information than that!

Does the nursery do any kind of parent link book?

roisin · 13/01/2009 20:26

aw lovely

ComeOVeneer · 13/01/2009 20:33

Oh Kew how did I missed this. So thrilled he enjoyed his first day, can't believe how time flies . My friends I told you about are still waiting to hear about their adoption, (we were inerviewed as referees for them in Feb 2005)

I can't believe we will hear which school ds will be going to in a few weeks!