Back to School

Emry started Grade 5 and Calum started Grade 1 on Tuesday!!!!!! Two kids in school full time makes for one happy momma!!!!! After they left on Tuesday Armin turns to me and gives me a great big hug and says "it's just us!!!!" Having just him around has been so easy, he loves to play all by himself so it allows me to gets lots done!! 

Grandma Puzey cut Calum's hair the night before the first day of school and it made him look so grown up!!! 

Leah and Blake get on the bus right after our kids!! Calum was so excited to have Blake sit with him on the bus and Emry was beside herself with excitement to sit with her bestest friend in the whole entire world, Leah!! 

It sounds like it was a terrific first day!! Calum loves his teacher, I met her too, Miss Whittaker, and she seems like the type of teacher Calum needs!!! Emry likes her teacher too, a man, Mr. Wood!!! It was a great day for me too, I had an interview at the school as a teaching aid and I got it!!!! I will be working 11 hours a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays in the kindergarten with a specific little boy!!! Calum saw me at the school and ran and gave me a hug!!! The Principal this year is new and it sounds like Calum and him had a bit of an experience already!! Calum's class was lined up along the wall outside the office going on a little tour of the school and Mr. Rollingson came out of his office to give all the kids a high five and say hi!! Calum looks at him, and he could tell Calum was thinking real hard, when Calum blurts out "you have no hair!" Mr. Rollingson said he knows, and again Calum says, "No, you have no hair!" Mr. Rollingson answers, "well, you have lots of hair so maybe I can have some of yours!"  Calum thinks about it and instead of answering he runs into Mr. Rollingson and wraps his arms around his legs to give him a big hug, he let's go briefly to pull on some of the other kids to have them join and the next thing Mr. Rollingson knows he is in the middle of a grade 1/2 group hug!!! That's our Calum, full of surprises!!

The week has been long for him but it has also been full of fun and friends, learning and games!! I would say this school year is off to a great start!!! Monday Armin starts his first full afternoon of preschool!! He will be able to ride the bus home with Emry and Calum, something he is super excited about!! At his hour long orientation on Wednesday he was totally in awe of where he was and all he was able to do!! A great success for him too!!!!!

That morning we all got up early enough to enjoy a breakfast of fresh baked muffins and fruit and there was even time for Jared to give the kids a back to school fathers blessing!!! They were wonderful blessings and it gave the kids just that little bit extra they need to be strong to withstand the temptations and pressures from their friends they will surely be bombarded with.  All three of them sat so good and really seemed to listen to the things daddy had to say!! I am grateful for a husband who is worthy to hold the preisthood and for the time he takes to shield our children with such a special gift!

We have been consistent with our eating breakfast as a family and I love it, I feel it gives us the good start we need to conquer all the day has in store for us!! I have been able to walk with Char when we are both available and have loved it!! This year truly is starting of exactly right!!!!