Back to School

Well I have to say the first day back was a success!!! I attended the kick off assembly and it was nice meeting the additions to the staff!! Calum even looked happy to be there! ;) though at bedtime he did say he didn't want to go back in the morning, I think reality was hitting him!!!!  Emry isn't in the same class as her best friend or with either of her cousins but she really likes her teacher!!! Yay!!!!! But they are on a new bus route which does include ALL their cousins, I'm happy about that...cousins make the best of friends!!!!

Armin was super pumped to go to Kindergarten, though his face in the picture showed otherwise!!! It was only half a day, a practice day! When I picked him up he told me he hates kindergarten because it was so short!! Next week he will get the full day and we will see if he says he still hates it ;)

It's hard to believe Emry is in Grade 6!! She is growing into such a beautiful, caring young lady!! Calum is in Grade 2, I'm excited to see how he grows this year!!! He is already such a big, rough and tumble kid, I can't imagine what the year will bring!!!  And our baby is in Kindergarten...wow!!! What am I going to do with my new found freedom? Get caught up on house work and do some crafts I've been putting off because of curious little hands!!! 

The night before school started we had a yummy dinner and a fun back to school family home evening lesson!! We talked about putting on the whole armour of God and what each piece of the armour represents! They seemed to get the idea and came up with things that might make their armour come off...lying, hitting, being disrespectful...we had an object lesson with an orange and a bowl of water. With the peel on the Orange it floats in the water, as we took some of the peel off (the armour) it would start to sink. As we take our armour of God off (truth, righteousness, spirituality, faith) we too start to sink. We talked about how we want them to try as hard as they can to always wear all of the armour of God and do the best they can and be the best examples of our Saviour that they can! A great way to start off a new school year!!!  Jared gave each of the kids a father's blessing and then it was time for baths and bed!!!!  They were all too excited to sleep, but eventually sleep won and our house was quiet!