First Day of School

Believe it or not I started this two weeks ago (that is when school started). I totally thought I would have this done by now, but life has gotten in the way. Life tends to do that, eh? Well at least I am getting it up. So here we go...

You know, sending my kids off to school always fills me with so many emotions. Sad, cause I have loved having helpful older kids to help around the house and to entertain my younger two. Happy, cause I don't have to break-up fights all day long (or even just listen to it). Scared, cause what if the other kids are mean to them. Excited for the things they will learn. Pride, cause I know my kids do so well in school. And probably a hundred other emotions that I don't have time to write about. So of course the moment their alarms went off they were up and at 'em (if only I could figure out how to wake them up like this every other morning).






















I love walking my kids to school. I get a chance to talk to them about their upcoming day. I get to hear all about their excitement and I get to be the last person they give a hug to before they go off to school. Just a little reminder for them that I love them (not to mention for me). I love catching Saige's kisses.


Here is Saige in her 2nd Grade class.


Sierra in her 5th Grade class.


And Savannah in her 6th Grade class.

As I walked back home I felt such a swelling of pride as I heard over the intercom the Pledge of Allegiance. I cannot help loving that the Pledge is still said. LOVE IT!!!!

Then came the HOT walk home.






As you can see Sierra was a little sad by the end of the day. She had a great day, she was just a bit concerned about her friend who was still on oxygen related to her asthma. She was so afraid for her. That is just Sierra, she is has so much concern for others.

I LOVE MY GIRLS!!!!!!! (and I love my boy, but this post is not about him. And I love Sedona, who is a girl but this reference to "girls" did not include her, and again this post was not about her)

Let's Ride!

So these are picture before Sedona's accident that I previously posted and you can see how much she is enjoying her riding her bike.






Now it is a different story. She won't ride at all if I am not holding onto her. She just screams and cries. She says "I just want to walk!" It is so sad. I am determined to get her loving her bike again. It just may take some time.

Summit has been so anxious to be able to ride his bike without training wheels. He has two friends down the street that ride like pros and he really wants to join them. We have taken them off several times only for him to more-or-less give up and have the training wheels put back on just so he can ride. So a week ago Summit came in and asked if I would take his training wheels off, again. So like a good mother I went out and took off his wheels and held onto the seat so he could give it a go. Well, he took off!!!! He got a little nervous when he noticed I let go, but he stayed up and kept going.











It did not take him long to decide that he didn't even need me to help him start. And right off he loved going up and down the end of our drive-way.

Sierra has been so excited that she now knows how to ride with NO HANDS!!!!! So it begins!

Can you tell?

Okay, so for Christmas Savannah got a sewing machine. She was so incredibly excited about this gift. As most all of you know I am not a sewer. So this has been quite the challenge for me to be able to help her. This is our second big project that we did.

Savannah really likes this!

And just in case you could not tell click on the following picture and pay attention to the face.


I should have taken a picture of her wearing the finished product. Um!!! Well, perhaps I will get that posted a bit later.