Soon my daughter will head off to Kindergarten and I’ll be the parent of a child in elementary school! How did that happen?

My mom friends who have been through this already have warned me about the onslaught of school-related paperwork and emails. This was high on my list so today I started to prepare. Here’s what I did:

Purged and recycled nearly all the paperwork from the file folder for my daughter’s pre-school…saving only the progress reports for posterity
Purged all the pre-school papers out of my Family Information binder
Scanned the pre-school class list to my computer so I can keep all the contact information (for future play dates) but get rid of the paper
Put the Kindergarten class roster and school calendar into my Family Information binder for quick reference
Added all the dates from the new school calendar to the Google calendar that I share with my husband (I LOVE Google calendar)
Set up a folder on my computer for my daughter’s new school and downloaded some important information from the school’s website

Hope I’m ready!

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