Saturday

Saturday found me again at Barnes and Noble.
I was on a mission.  A mission for Kado.

In one week Jonge and Famke will go to school full-time.  Last year Jonge went to afternoon kindergarten. This year in Michigan kindergarten must be full-time if the school wishes to receive funding.  This means that both Jonge and Famke will be full-time students.

This also means that Kado will be bereft of his life-long playmates.

In other words, three days a week he's going to be stuck with me.

Yes, there will be Feintsje and at times Hertsje.  But Hertsje's mommy will have a brand new job and a different schedule.

And although I was much older than Kado, I clearly remember the year my older sisters went away to college/got married.  There I was stuck at home with the elderly.  At least that's what it seemed like to me at the time.  I clearly was the only 12 year old at the early bird dinner at Ponderosa.

So I went looking, hoping to find among the plethora of  'back to school' books one about a wee lad whose older siblings are excitedly heading off to school while he is stuck at his boring grandma's house with a bunch of babies.

There is nothing.  I asked the nice lady working in the children's section.

The nice lady was sympathetic and told me that she could have used  a book like that a few years ago when her granddaughter got on the school bus and she was left to explain to the younger brother why he could not go along.

She told me I should write that book.

Well, of all the great many things that I should do I'm not sure that is one of them.  But it's a thought.  Maybe I'll have it ready for Feintsje when Kado goes to kindergarten.

Maybe all children the age of three are in preschool now?  This could be.  I tend to live in my own little world.  But it's a pretty fun world.  I like it here.