It’s kind of funny the way kids handle saying goodbye.

When EJS was “much littler” she didn’t like saying goodbye, she would hide or just avoid me, it was ok, i knew she just didn’t want me to go. There was one time she refused to say goodbye, then when I was driving away, she stood in the doorway waving excitedly, go figure!

Now, some days she is there to say goodbye or like today, she knew I was leaving, but still went across the street to play with one of the kids. That was ok, I went across to say goodbye, I’ll go to her.

MGS was different, she was heading out to play, I said I was leaving and she said “Ok, goodbye” and gave me a hug. She’s never been too woogie about saying goodbye or me leaving and trust me, if she didn’t want to say goodbye, she wouldn’t. She’s becoming quite the defiant little person, so very opinionated, but as much as she might drive you crazy on occassion, she will touch your hand, wrap herself around your leg and look at you with “that look” and you’re done.

So we have established that the kdis are funny about saying goodbye, sometimes it’s harder on me! Today, no problem, I know I’m going to see them very soon, but when EJS was first in daycare, I had the hardest time leaving! She prepared me so it wasn’t as rough when I was saying goodbye to her sister, don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t easy, but at least i was ready for it.

One of my fondest memories from my childhood was when we would go see my grandmother in Brooklyn and when we left, we would all turn around in the car and mom would say “Everybody wave at the grandparents!” I can tell you this is a tradition that we have carried on to today!

Wave goodbye everyone and goodnight!