Okay, so this week, I have felt like I've been on a roller coaster ride, and my brain is trying to catch up and process everything. Between trying to start the girls with the school year, going to ECS back-to-school parties, finding last minute supplies, getting a menu schedule up and running, grocery shopping to make sure I've got food for the menu, keeping up with laundry, and just being a mother to our 3 children, I'm ready for a vacation!! By last night, my brain was like those super slow computers that take forever to open a page! I was getting all the supplies in the backpacks since Maggie and Meredith also had their first day of Mother's Day Out today -- making sure everything was labeled, getting Maggie's assignments prepared, checking the lists again -- when I just started wondering how I am going to do this!! With Maggie in 4th grade this year, I can't just get a book off the shelf in the morning and work a few pages with her. I really have to prepare! I have a whole new respect for women who homeschool multiple grade children. And I am so thankful that Will can go to ECS because it is so hard to juggle a 4th grader, 2nd grader, and pre-k/kindergartner who's learning to read, when the 2nd grader especially is highly active and easily distracted! My prayer this morning as I sat with my coffee and Bible is that the Lord would give me His strength and keep me in this humble state of mind when I am so tired and feeling so inadequate that I truly cannot rely on myself. "When I am weak, then He is strong," will, Lord willing, lay on my heart each day.
Part of me is sad to send Will off to school. Most parents have this transition first with their oldest child, and most of them in kindergarten. It is very surreal sending him to school when I've had him with us for 8 years now. I am thankful that I will miss him -- and hopefully he will miss me! And I am still so grateful to the Lord for allowing me to teach him for his first few years of school and to continue to teach the girls.
Here are a few pictures from our drop-off today. A couple are blurred and I think my camera is acting up again which is another whole frustration.
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| Will with the Ridgelake principal, Cathy Short |
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| At his desk |
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| With Maggie and Meredith -- I had to show this one as Will looked away at something else going on in the room |
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| All Smiles! |
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| Ms. Landy, Will's teacher |
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| Celebrating the beginning of school at Yogurt Mountain!! |
