Bright Sunshiny Day

The Last Day of School!

Thirty five weeks ago, in the back seat of my van, I had two little girls FULL of nervous energy.  One with zero front teeth and they were both singing as loud as I would let them:

Now, Billy Joe McGuffrey
was a really clumsy kid.
On the first day of first grade
I'll tell you what he did.
He tripped over a pencil box,
flew up in the air,
landed on a kangaroo
who pulled out all his hair!
He needed first aid in the first grade,
first aid in the first grade,
first aid in the first grade.
You could buy a zoo with all the doctor bills he paid.

Today, I brought home two little - but bigger little girls.  One with her big girl front teeth all grown in and one who just the other day lost her first front tooth.  My goodness.  How things change around here!  Super Bubbie had just turned two and now he's nearly three!

We've left behind most of our picture books - and replaced them with chapter books.  Andrew has outgrown even his biggest onsie - but still loves his paci  and we left behind hair bows for a brief amount of time....only to embrace them again.....along with a new interest in what we look like on the outside.  Thankfully, they still want my help and approval on any sort of outfit/combo/hair inspiration that they come up with. 

This summer holds a promise of being a sweet one!  The little girl years are slipping by and I have to say that I hate to see them go....we still have so much to learn!  So many things to discover together.  I've loved first grade~I've loved having two first graders and a two year old this year!  My son knows grammar jingles, the Ten Commandments, and our Ancient Egyptian history song.   This year has brought so much change in our life and we scratch our heads and whisper thank you to the Heavenly Father who has been so, SO good to us.

I'll leave you with one little girl's first journal entry.  It's just too sweet not to share....and my goodness....to those who have walked along beside us this year, I hope this touches your heart, too.

I have a nice worm (warm) house.  Worm (warm) as can be.  Everything in it is very cozy.  It is a happy place.  Come and see.  Everyone in it are as nice as can be.  I love my sweet puppies outside my door and I love my worm (warm) bed.  It is nice.  Everything there is so full of love.  Everything there on rainy days are snug-a-bug!  Everyone there are happy and the kids will play with joy!

It's the FIRST DAY of FIRST GRADE

Now, Billy Joe McGuffrey
was a really clumsy kid.
On the first day of first grade
I'll tell you what he did.
He tripped over a pencil box,
flew up in the air,
landed on a kangaroo
who pulled out all his hair!
He needed first aid in the first grade,
first aid in the first grade,
first aid in the first grade.
You could buy a zoo with all the doctor bills he paid.

In case you didn't catch it, today was the FIRST DAY of FIRST GRADE!  Actually, yesterday was the first homeschool day of first grade, however, that didn't hold quite the magic of singing about Billy Joe McGuffery all the way to our school. 

How amazing is it that today I dropped off two first graders?  One with zero front teeth? The other with a desperate need to loose some teeth? We are so excited about the school year starting up!  New things to learn!  (all three of us) FOUR new girls in our class!  New friends!  Seeing old ones again! So much fun.  As soon as I hit the publish button, I am off to finish organzing our stuff. 

In other news....today is the FIRST day in two weeks that I don't have my new friends hanging around.  You know, the counter guy, the plumber, a few more counter guys, the contractor, and my favorite painters.  Whew.  Pics to come soon, I promise!  However, we've been busting our tails getting the house in back in order for my grandfather's ninety-third birthday bash here on Saturday.

Never a dull moment.

For a friday!

Just a little youtube sing-a-long for a friday.  (walking away from my blog laughing gleefully at myself because I think my sense of humor is SO DANG FUNNY!)

(thanks lindsey)

School!

E and C are in kindergarten this year.  After MUCH prayer and by much, I mean YEARS of prayer, we decided to send our girls to school in a town about half a hour from here. I'd post the linkie to the website, but my blog traffic is way high - and whilst I probably DO know everyone that reads here, well, what if I don't?!  So no linkie.

Anyway, where was I?  One of my oldest and dearest friends (since grade 6) called me one day a few years ago to tell me about this great school she was sending her son too!  A private Classical Christian School that partners with parents! Two or three days on campus, the rest at home.  OH MY!  I was just so excited, I could NOT wait for him to start kinder, so she could tell me all about it. Classical!  That means LOTS OF BOOKS! We added that as a strong option as we weighed public, private, or home.  What to do? What to do?  But we felt such a peace about chasing this particular school - a peace that was lacking as I sat in the parking lot of our public, and as I drove past the private that we were considering.

BOOM!  All of a sudden, here we were.  Going to to the informational meeting.  Filling out apps, getting the girls tested, having a family meeting with the director, ordering books and uniforms, going to to classical educators training......and feeling *great* about every single step of the way. 

Six weeks into it, we are confident that we made the best choice for our family. Our girls are so happy!  We are enjoying our time together on our home days - and enjoying our time apart on their at school days.  (Well, we are - wouldn't you?) Morning comes early around here these days - we have to leave the house at 7:25ish, but you know? 

It's all good!