Thursday, August 7, 2014

The things we need to do

In the next few weeks:
- Introduce Leo to French. I don't even know where to start. Yes, it is my mother tongue, but I haven't taught it to anyone ever, so I don't know how to start with him. Maybe I can just introduce some terms he'll hear at school.
- Tell him he's going to a new school. It's difficult to find a balance between wanting good timing (not too early, not too late) while waiting to make him read by talking about it a lot and speaking French. He's starting in THREE weeks. Oh my word. I'm SO stressed about his first few weeks there. I'm hoping we can visit the school before he starts but they're all on vacation until the 22nd, so I don't know what they're willing to do in the last week of August -I'm sure all teachers will be busy prepping their classrooms. I'll harass them on the 22nd! Ok, maybe the 23rd.
- Talk more about the baby! We need to get going. He obviously knows a brother is coming, but we need to get into the details -hospital stay, what to expect from the baby and the first few weeks, etc.

I feel unprepared!