First Day 2015

This is a big year in our house.  Emily starts middle school & Katherine goes to Kindergarten.  Jonathan is in 3rd grade.  This will be the first year all of the kids are in school all week.  This is the first year in my 8 years as a stay-at-home mom that I won't have one of my littles with me during the day.  It's kinda strange and definitely bittersweet.  But, it also opens up a bunch of possibilities for me...so it should be interesting.

We got them all off to school pretty easy this morning.  Seeing Katherine in her backpack, lunchbox in hand walking toward the school made Joel and I both choke back some tears.  She was very excited and went right to coloring after we said goodbye.  Jonathan has been looking forward to school again ever since meet the teacher night last week.  He really likes his teacher and he's excited to learn and read and see his friends again.  Then we went to drop miss Em at her new school.  She found a friend and got to walk in with her which helped ease this mom's mind.  She too was very excited...a little nervous about having to find all her classes alone, but excited mainly.

So in a few hours we'll see how they all did at pick up time!