August 20, 2007

I made it

In keeping with family traditions, I took photos of my kids on their first day of school. Unfortunately it has been raining for two days, so the pictures are kind of soggy. But here they are in all their glory (and totally thrilled with holding the umbrella).

When Everett came downstairs for breakfast this is what he was wearing, complete with the nametag from vacation Bible school. I didn't say anything, but he later informed me that this is his school "uniform" and I need to wash it every night. Yeah, I'll get right on that. To further comment, he's paired a seersucker jacket with plain gray t-shirt and jeans. Quite the fashionista, takes after his dad.


I wouldn't say the day went beautifully, but it...went. And, we are all excited to do it again tomorrow. Everett's statement before bed was, "The second day of school is even better than the first." Let's hope so. I've got to tweak some things, but I really need to focus on these three and just get us into a routine. Then I can deal with adding babies to the crowd in a few months. I kept looking around thinking, "How am I going to manage? What in the world will we do?" Not a good first day attitude. Since it's overwhelming enough. It's hard to step back and realize that I'm homeschooling because we felt like God was calling us to do it. So I know that God is going to take care of us, BUT I don't remember that when I'm up to my knees in questions, pleads, and squabbles. Deep breath.

Honestly, we had a very rewarding day. Ella was fabulous (I was most worried about her), she patiently listened to me, worked hard, and kept herself entertained with quiet activities. We had a great moment during our math lesson (very basic right now), when she was so proud of herself for answering correctly. The problem kid turned out to be Eli, he wanted to "work, work, work" and that doesn't happen with kindergarden. Since he couldn't work, work, work, he bugged, bugged, bugged me. We sat down later and planned out things that he could do ALONE for tomorrow.

3 comments:

Carpenters said...

Apryl,
I love the pictures! It's a real singing in the rain moment with the bright red umbrella and your beautiful flowers behind them. I'm glad to hear that everything went well and that you made it. And I bet Everett's right, the second day will be even better.

Philippians 4:6-7

God bless,
Penelope

Karen said...

Apryl,
I do not know if you will remember me, we went to West Mobile together for awhile. Its Karen Schurdell married to Mike we've got 2 little girls Trinity and Haleigh, if you need to see a picture to jog your memory you can see it on myspace at www.myspace.com/mkth2001 (my page is set to private so you'll only be able to see my profile picture, and its ok if you do not remember). God has placed your family on my heart several times in the past few years and I do not know why but I've prayed for you guys. I received your blog address from Amiee Weller a couple of weeks ago and I must say I think this is great! You guys are amazing. I will pray for the children you are going to bring home soon. I hope all is well. You can email me, if you'd like, at karen@schurdell.com until later take care

Lauren said...

Sounds like a fun first day! :)