Ds just started school and I'M finding it hard

[Nutjob]

As some of you will know, my ds started 'big' school this September and I hate it. It's really selfish I know but I miss him soo much. It's lucky I have my dd or I'd be going up the wall.

I suppose it's just the fact that it's been him and me more or less every day for the last five years, and now I feel I hardly ever see him!! Playschool was just a couple of hours and I quite enjoyed the break but it's a whole different ballgame now he's at school. I get about an hour and a half in the morning where I am tearing around getting his lunchbox packed, doing breakfasts, making sure him and dd are getting dressed etc., then it's about an hour after school before I am making teas, doing baths and getting them ready for bed.

There was a possibility of a teachers strike this week and at the last moment it was called off, and I was really disappointed because I thought I was gonna get an extra day with him!!

Is it normal to feel like this?!!!!

No time to write much, should be working but there was a discussion about this here a while back. You're not alone!

Nutjob, my DS starts next September and we went to visit a prospective school when they had a summer fete - I found my eyes filling up with tears at the thought of him starting school and there was over a year to go!!

I certainly hope it's normal to feel like this...

Nutjob, aren't there things that make you really glad that he's gone to school too? Like the pride that you feel when he's reading or learned to do something for himself or just made new friends and other children realise what a great kid he is? My DS started school in September too, and he has really become independent, his own little person with important things to tell me about at the end of the day.