{"id":233,"date":"2008-09-04T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/09\/sure-i-look-happy-here.html"},"modified":"2008-09-04T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T15:30:00","slug":"sure-i-look-happy-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/09\/sure-i-look-happy-here.html","title":{"rendered":"Sure, I Look Happy Here"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today was Timmy’s first day of preschool at a church up the street from us here in Bellevue.<\/p>\n

He was great going right into the classroom, picking up his nametag and getting involved in the centers scattered about the room.<\/p>\n

Then it was time to say “Goodbye”.<\/p>\n

He became a terrified wreck and it took his teacher peeling him off me and off the doorway to get him into the room.<\/p>\n

I was pretty emotional after that… believe it or not, I hadn’t experienced that with Timmy in a very long time.<\/p>\n

But if past experiences serve as an indicator, I’m willing to bet he will have had a good time when I pick him up about an hour from now.<\/p>\n

Then it’s off to Toys R Us to go lightsaber shopping!<\/p>\n

PS: Like the shirt? The kids wear their preschool shirts on Thursdays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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