The Great Kindergarten Search of 2015 is over for us, and we are very happy with the results. For the next nine years, Scarlett will be attending a school with tons of outdoor space, great teachers, and a lunch program that makes me jealous.

But she was not initially thrilled by this news, mainly because she is in a contrary phase. “Daddy and I have something exciting to talk to you about!” I said, once our decision was made.

“It’s not exciting!” she yelled, after I had given my spiel, full of warm and fuzzy observations about the school. She dashed out of the room.

“I think you might have oversold that,” Rob said.

Perhaps. First of all, it did not involve Care Bears. Second, Scarlett doesn’t know the details of The Great Search, which included the difficult decision to leave her current school, a wonderful place that offered her a spot through 8th grade. She doesn’t know that we spent months going to tours and open houses, filling out applications and sending emails. She doesn’t know that last weekend was spent trying to determine where she would thrive for the next nine years of her life, a discussion neither Rob nor I took lightly. Read More>