{"id":875,"date":"2012-08-28T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gingiber.com\/she-started-pre-school-it-is-a-good-thing-2\/"},"modified":"2012-08-28T17:19:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T17:19:00","slug":"she-started-pre-school-it-is-a-good-thing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/?p=875","title":{"rendered":"She Started Pre School. It Is A Good Thing."},"content":{"rendered":"
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My darling Violet started Pre School last Friday. She is nearing age 4, so I know in my head that she is old enough. But golly where have the past few years gone!?<\/p>\n

We were so fortunate to qualify for a free pre-school program with our local public school. She will attend everyday. And it is not just “playtime”. She will be challenged with a great curriculum, learn Spanish, and make new friends.<\/p>\n

I will be completely honest. I really needed this. As any mom who works from home can attest, it is nearly impossible to go to sleep at night and not think to yourself “I wish that I could have done it all today”. The constant struggle of balancing parenting with maintaining a growing business is nearly impossible. I have been so incredibly stressed the past several months trying to take good care of the girls (they are the #1 priority) while tending to Gingiber.<\/p>\n

I’ve been so stressed that I’ve started having crippling anxiety attacks. Now please don’t misunderstand me. My children are not the source of my anxiety. The realization that I have stretched myself too thin, compiled with some other external stressors (that I will not go into) have been the true culprits. It is a ton of pressure to be the bread winner of the family.<\/p>\n

I digress. I know it may sound selfish to say “yay, I am so glad my kid started school”. But it is honest. Now that it is just me and Lucy home I am trying to find a new rhythm. I really do miss Violet. Like usually this time of day I am making Violet lunch. We always sit as close to each other as possible at the table and she will ask me a million and one questions about what we are eating. What we are doing next. Try to negotiate herself out of a nap. Etc.<\/p>\n

Now there is a lot of quiet in the house.<\/p>\n

Any other work from home mothers out there relate?<\/p>\n

Stacie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My darling Violet started Pre School last Friday. She is nearing age 4, so I know in my head that she is old enough. But golly where have the past few years gone!? We were so fortunate to qualify for a free pre-school program with our local public school. She will attend everyday. And it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}