A New Day

So the boys went off to school on Monday. For the first time ever we loaded up backpacks, straightened school uniforms (navy shorts, white polos) and outsourced our children's education. Kristin was definitely the most affected - thought the boys were also quite concerned about how long they would have to be there. Seth's question was, "how much longer than VBS will this be?" Joel still isn't super clear on the difference between an hour and a year (so each day feels like a year to him, I imagine). And Caleb - he's just as carefree as ever - started doing backbends as soon as he sat down on the gym floor with a bunch of strangers (oh, and his best friend is, of course, a girl - named Lilly). Kristin and I held it together fairly well. She said the strangest thing was just how quiet the house was (we need a stereo on the main floor it seems). But she held it together ok until she picked the boys up and heard that they had all had a fantastic first day - then she broke into sobs driving out of the parking lot, so thankful it had been a good experience.

All in all we just feel very blessed to be able to send the kids to this great little Christian school. It's the prefect place for each of them right now. Seth's class only has 6 kids total (4 boys, 2 girls) - so he'll get plenty of individual attention. Joel's class has 14, and he'll love the commotion. And Caleb - well, he's Caleb, so he'll just enjoy each moment (and probably miss half of the assignments as he daydreams). Maybe we should all be a little more like Caleb...