September 7, 2016
Dear Callen,
I just dropped you off for your first day of preschool this year. Even more than last year you were more than excited to go. While school for you does not start until 12:30 pm you’ve been asking since 10:00 am to go. While you’re currently enrolled in the integrated preschool program due to your developmental delays, I have no doubt that you’ll catch up soon. I’ve already noticed an improvement in your speech over the summer. I think the ability to be around other kids will be good for you as well. It pains me that you aren’t around kids more. Your face lights up when you get to play with kids your age, even if you aren’t the best behaved around them. The more exposure you have the faster you will develop better social skills. I’ve been trying to put things in place at work to get a new schedule so you can get into a daycare center or a full time preschool. I don’t know if it’s going to work out, but I have hope that it will. We should know more in a week or two. Then we just need to figure out how we’re going to pay for it.
I hope that this love for school stays with you as you get older. Education is important and opens so many doors. A lot of what I’ve been able to achieve was due to my education. One of my many hopes is that I can find a way to help you pay for your education. The student loan debt I needed to incur to get my degrees is almost crushing. It affects a lot of the decisions I make about our lives. I want us to move to a town with a better school district, but we can’t afford that right now. I want to get you in daycare, but it’s too expensive. It’s still a long time until you reach college, but these are the types of things I worry about. I’ll do my best to make it happen, but if I can’t I’m sorry.
You’ve only been gone for an hour but I miss you. You would think after a month of being home together all day every day I would be glad to get rid of you, and I’m not going to lie it kind of nice, but I’m excited to go pick you. I want to hear about how your first day went and I pray you behaved yourself. In another 90 minutes we’ll find out, but I know you are going to have a great year no matter how today goes.
Love,
Daddy