1st week of homeschooling

Well, I had all intentions of at least blogging weekly. As you can see from my last post, I may need to change that goal to yearly :) We started our first "official" week of kindergarden this week and it was crazy! Two unexpected trips to the doctors office, 6 hours of tech work on our computer, a dgl meeting, a starting the homeschool year party, and a sweet little baby that spent the week sick, crying and only wanting to be held by momma. Needless to say, the week has not gone as planned. In fact, not one day went as planned. I know that our schedule has be flexible. This week was definately a test in how flexible we can be. All and all it went okay. Here are a couple of pics from the first day.

J enjoying his morning class...Eating 101

On the first day of school my mom always took a picture of me and the boys in front of the door.

Lulu thought we needed a pic of her "thinking" on the first day of school

"Thinking" about math

Lulu taking her first spelling pretest. This girl has got great handwriting.

The lovely little things in life

This morning I woke up at about 7am after an extra crappy night of sleep. I stumbled out into the family room and was greeted, like always, by my sweet little daughter excited about whatever wonderful or not so wonderful thing we had in store for the day. I asked her to open all the blinds in the house and then take Sadie out to use the bathroom. I was trying to get 5 minutes of peace and quiet in so that I could wake up a bit. When she came in from letting the dog out she said in the happiest, sweetest little voice that she HAD to sweep the back porch because it was covered in leaves. I thought this was a great idea as this would give me another 5 minutes of peace and quiet :) After about 2 minutes of sweeping, I started to watch her. She had the biggest smile on her face and was so happy outside sweeping her little heart out in her totally mismatched outfit and hair assessories, not missing one leaf. At that moment I got tears in my eyes. I was overwhelmed with love for my sweet little girl. Thank you Lord for waking me up and not letting me miss this dee dah moment.