First Day of School 2011

Kids anticipate Christmas. I anticipate the First Day of School. No one gives me nicely colored gifts or paper plates full of sugary goodies, but my heart races and the excitement builds just the same.

The kids were ready well before the bus came. (They were up by 6:45.) I put big, fancy bows into the girls' hair. We had family prayer and rushed outside to take pictures.

Rebekah is a 1st Grader

Leah is a 2nd Grader

Nathan is a 4th Grader

Daniel is a 6th Grader

And here is the entire school crew. Don't they look excited, too? Such good looking kids. And they are great kids. They will do well in school and come home with lots of stories to tell (Nathan will share the least, Leah will share the most.)

We really wanted the whole group of kids. Joseph just couldn't get his heart into it. He has two full years at home before he joins the older kids on the bus. It looks like he's going to need it!

Waiting at the end of the driveway for the bus. Leah kept sneaking out to the street to see if she could see it coming.

Sarah tried to talk Daddy into letting her get on the bus, too. She's got 3 full years to wait. Besides, you can't go to school in your pajamas!

THE BUS! I know that school buses are probably yellow because of the safety/easy-to-see thing. But to me it echos the feeling in my soul...happy, happy yellow!

So all day, it will be Joseph, Sarah and me. We will not have anyone to tell us what we really wanted to play, despite the choices we try to make on our own. We will only have to make 3 lunches and there won't be any food fights. If we want to go shopping, we won't have to consider that someone in Kindergarten needs to be picked up. And there will be less fighting.

And about 4 o'clock we will be anxiously watching out the window for the people we've been missing all day, hoping they will be as excited to see us as we are to see them!

HOORAY for school!