My Once Upon a Time...

It was an emotional week to say the least, because only a few days after Finn turned one, my big kid started Kindergarten. Cue the tears! We met his teacher a few days before school started and he was so nervous, but all smiles and felt so much better after he met her. We were hoping that one of his best friends from his old school would be in his class, but he ended up in a different Kindergarten class at the same school.  And then it was here, his first day at a brand new, big kid school. I don't know who was more nervous, me or him. We made his teacher a little gift for the first day. We were able to walk him into class and get him situated, take a picture, but then had to leave pretty soon. The second day I was only allowed to walk him to the door and starting on the third day, we had to drop him off at the gate. Such a difference from preschool. He didn't cry and seemed to have had a great day when I picked him up at 3:15pm. The only thing ...

We call all of the half-siblings "diblings" (donor siblings) and we know about 12 of them, although we all know that there are more out there. We have met one of the diblings multiple times in the past and I have also met two other families (without the kids), but it has always been my dream to get them all together one day. About a year ago we started to plan and while not all of the families were able to make it this year, we were able to met up with three other families for our first annual dibling reunion.  The reunion was going to take place at Katie's mom's beach house in Long Beach. She had graciously offered to host all of us and it ended up being perfect. I was really nervous to drive 6 hours with the boys by myself (Katie decided not to come). Not only had I never driven by myself to California, but adding two kids in the mix was stressing me out. But we all rocked it. Finn was a trooper and slept about 3.5 hours in total and was content in his car seat...