Last Day of Summer School

Today is Brooklyn's last day of summer school, and I'm excited! We will have 7 weeks together before she starts going to school full time for the next 20 years or so! I hope to make those weeks memorable for her with activities and trip to local fun spots.

9 Years and 4 hours later....

9 years after high school and 4 hours from our hometown, I am loving your blogs! It gives me an insight into who you are now, the opinions and views that you have formed over the years that we've been apart, traveling different paths. I think it is amazing that God has brought us to places in our lives where we share many things in common; whereas, once we only shared the same zip code. 6 triple nickel 9. It's not that we didn't get along; on the contrary. We just didn't hang out.

Summer School Ending

Brooklyn has 2 days of summer school left, and the experience has been really good for her! Last Friday we went out of town, and she had to miss summer school. She woke up that morning, and with a frown on her face told me that I had made her miss the bus and pizza day. I had to laugh! I think it is so great that she is enjoying school so much that she's mad at me when I make her miss it. I hope that never ends.

Frustrating....

I know several people that have been giving their babies table food far before Pediatricians suggest. Even though the babies have low vitamin levels, they still declare that, "it's just fine! My mother fed me the same way and there's nothing wrong with me." It makes me crazy. I don't understand how these people think they are so much smarter than the American Board of Pediatrics when most of them didn't graduate high school. These people need assitance to provide for their babies, and they get it from WIC. If you aren't aware of what WIC is, I'll share a little bit about it. It provides nutritional assitance to Women, Infants, and Children up to age 5. The primary services provided are health screening, risk assessment, nutrition education and counseling, breastfeeding promotion and referrals to health care. Supplemental food is provided at no cost to participants. I'm starting to think that the nutrition education that they provide, needs to be a requirement before the participants can recieve their, "supplemental food." It's absolutely rediculous to me that these women don't care enough to do their own research and make informed decisions.

A Little Reminder

The boys have started dancing when they hear music. And again, I am reminded of the joy that God has hidden in our hearts long before we ever realize that he was the one that made us. Something as sweet as a dancing/bouncing baby is a glimpse of God's design. I love it!

1 week down, 7 to go

I'm taking a summer college class to satisfy my pre-req's for the LPN program at one of the community colleges here in KC. The first week is done and so far, so good! Our babysitter comes to our house to take care of the boys and Brooklyn when she is not at summer school. It is so nice to get out of the house to grow my brain, talk to adults and know my children are safe in their own environment! It will also be nice when the class is over and I have Brooklyn back at home for a month to enjoy summer before school starts in the fall.

Brooklyn's First Day of Kindergarten Summer School

What a huge milestone! It was odd setting my alarm so that I could wake up Brooklyn. 7am the alram goes off, I jump out of bed with excitement for the new journey she is starting. I still remember my first day of school. That's part of what makes all of this so weird. It didn't take long for her to pop open her eyes. She was super excited and was suddenly concerned that she was going to miss the bus. Several times I had to reassure her that we had plenty of time for the bus's 8:35am arrival. We were fortunate to have Dustin home so that both of us could walk her to the bus stop. We walked down and a few minutes later, some of the neighbor kids also came to the bus stop. When the bus arrived, we gave her hugs and without trepidation she climbed aboard. I took plenty of pictures and tried not to cry on the walk home. I didn't succeed. At 4:20 she got off of the bus, and we interrigated her about her day. Oddly enough she couldn't remember a whole lot. lol It's already starting! She told us she played with playdoh, rested at nap time, and played at recess. Her favorite part of the day? The bus ride! For years she's been saying, "when I turn 5, I get to ride the bus!"