First Day of School

We are now the proud parents of one 7th grader...plus a third grader and a first grader.

Heavens to Besty... this is freaking me out!!!

firsts/lasts

first
day of sixth grade
last
year before she is in middle schoolfirst
day of third grade
last
day before she really has to memorize the times tables (eek!)
first
day of school
last
time my baby will be in kindergarten

Wordless Wednesday - First Ever Baseball Game

Stung

The beginning of school is always a time that teeters precariously between a feeling of blossoming excitement and a feeling of distressed unsettlement.

Tell me, how do two such opposite and intense emotions simultaneouly exist within me?

My warring thoughts:

We're starting a new year!
New friends!
New teachers!
They're growing up.
I'm going to miss him.
I can't believe he's in school full day!
Freedom!!!
Freedom!!!
I'm going to get so much done!
He might be miserable.
5th GRADE?????!!!!!
What if she's not placed in the right class?
She'll make new friends.
She'll make her way.
God will work it out.

I'm positive I'm not the only one who does this. I'm just a momma bear watching out for my children. Checking. Double checking. Hurting. Feeling Joy. Praying. Asking. Inquiring. Thinking. Conferencing. Taking note. Praying. Believing.

So, yesterday was the first day of school. Emotions were running high. But the day was great. All was well.

And then came today. Even though he is the Duke of Rough and Tough, he is also the King of High Emotions, so I went by the school at lunch to check on him.

He grabbed me with his grubby, warm hands and said in a tight voice, "momma, take me home. I need to go home with you."

Ow. I felt stung. He doesn't want to go home; he needs to go home!

But I tipped his chin with encouragement and walked away. He can do it, I told myself.

Ten minutes later, I received a call on my cell phone: the school nurse. The news? Luke was on the playground and was stung by a wasp or yellow jacket. Not once. Not twice. Not three times or four. FIVE TIMES he was stung!!!

Your son needs you. Please come and get him. Feeling stung again, I did just that. I found him in the nurse's office, red faced and puffy, a desperate look in his Rough and Tough eyes. He was scared and had big welts on his shoulder, chest, hand and thigh.

But he was OK. It's just hard for a momma bear not to be there to protect her littlest cub.

Luke's First Day with Ms. Bunch

I cannot believe this day has come! My baby boy is going to school at Jenks East Elementary, and he is in Ms. Bunch's class. Ms. Bunch is the precious teacher who had Kami, and then Ellie and now, Luke!!!! It doesn't seem like he's old enough to go off and leave me at home alone! But it's going to be a great year for Luke and the girls too. They ALL have wonderful teachers! Now if Luke can just keep from being sent to the principal's office.....

Fantastic First Day of School

Luke's First Day of School

Luke has started going to preschool in a church just a couple of minutes away from our house. He goes on Tuesdays and Thursdays and his friends Carson and Bonnie are in his class. He is proud to wear his Spiderman backpack to school!