Hallelujah Chorus

requested breakfast of eggs and apple slices

ready to go!

they were so annoyed by this point!

My school bus cake I made all by myself-don't look close

Today was the first day of 4th and 1st grade in our house. This is the first time I have ever had both children in an actual school and the same one! I could hardly sleep last night. It was worse than Christmas morning! You see, I LOVE my children, I LOVE summer and I LOVE spending time with them but I also LOVE the start of school. I am not like the norms. It's true that I can't believe how old they are, how big they've gotten and how fast the time has gone but I will not be boo-hooing about how sad I am to have summer come to an end. I am rejoicing and the Hallelujah chorus is playing in my head! School time is here!

Go Fasters

Today the boys and I headed to a track by our house to break in our new "go Fasters". On the way I made the boys decide how many laps we were going to run. I'm trying to work on their goal setting and follow through. Not mine of course(lie). We decided on 10 laps and hit the dirt. By turn one I was cursing myself for not bringing my iPod to drown out the whining in my head. I mean the boy's complaints. Somewhere around lap 1200 or 5 I heard screaming. I turned assuming I'd see two boys fighting in the gravel...to my surprise I saw two boys jumping and cheering for ME! What?!? I heard, "go Mommy go!" "there's smoke coming off your shoes!" Oh the sweet joy of childhood imagination. Thanks to the dust from the gravel I was for just a moment my boy's hero...for a fleeting moment. Then it was back to, "you're not really going to make us do ALL ten." Oh silly little boys...