new school

we finally made the decision to take maya out of the very sweet,lovely little waldorf-inspired preschool where she has been happily playing princess, peter pan, hair salon, and learning all kinds of songs and stories for the past three months. it has been hard to figure out, but a nagging feeling that the preschool is just too far away has motivated the change. only 10 minutes on the highway, i kept telling myself, but getting on the highway is just not a good thing, at least in my mind. even on no traffic days the commute just didn't feel quite right. every day on the way to preschool and back i make up a story for maya, and usually stopped the story when we were on the highway because it really is harder to tell a good one when you are driving at 70 mph. so, we are trading the wooden toy, old fashioned school with natural rhythms for the somewhat more chaotic and less lovely-looking preschool which is closer to home. in the end, it feels more right and natural not to get on a highway with 5 lanes of traffic merging and speeding, than it does to drive a little way through our neighborhood. i am sad about leaving this very special little place, which was on potrero hill when i found it, and which had to move to another part of town because of funding issues. in a way i feel that maya will miss out because her mama cannot tolerate the stresses of highway driving very well, but i am the only mama she has got.

i guess we will have to make up this loss to maya by finding a little bit more of that old-fashioned imaginative play and story-telling at home. all the wooden toys--a little too expensive. i think maya is pretty happy playing with her royal family. wish us luck with the transition in january.