The First Day of School

I think this is the first year I didn't cry sending my kids back to school.  I am not sure why:  Maybe it was due to the wild and crazy summer schedule.  It never felt like I really had them home.  Or, maybe it was because for the first week of school I was in one school or another helping with the back to school festivities:  handing out choir, PE and cross country uniforms, scheduling and coordinating art discovery, meeting with the various parent groups at each school, etc.  Most likely it was the realization I had when I took these pictures (all of my little ones now filling the doorway rather than being dwarfed by it) that in the near future I would be sending them out the door to college and on missions - that thought made a single day at school seem not so bad.

Tanner - Junior

Austin - Freshman

Watch out Union - Here we come!

Carson - First Year @ Pacific Middle School

McKenna - 4th Grade
The first year without an older brother to take care of her at school.

Me and My friends on the first day of school:  Lunch @ Panera Bakery.
They didn't even give me a bad time about my sign!