School

We started school last week... homeschool again.  I really love it a lot, although I did have a moment in the car the other day when I was talking to Phil about school and for a second thought about what it would be like if the boys were in regular school.  I was like, "It would be so much EASIER!  I would have so much time to MYSELF!  I would only have DAVIS for like three hours a day!  My house would be so CLEAN!!  AAHHHH!"  Lol.  But I try to remember that I will have PLENTY of time by myself in less than 20 years (which I know will go by in a blink) when my boys are grown and gone forever.  Well, hopefully not forever, but you know what I mean.  I don't want to ever look back and think that I wish I would have spent more time with them.  And I know the homeschool time we spend together is really important and special to our family.  I know it's not for everyone, but right now it's working well for us and we love it.

Aaaaannnyyway... here are some obligatory first day of school photos...

Today we had our first day of Classical Conversations (a co-op group that we go to once a week).  I was excited about it but also really nervous because Reid and Davis have to be in the childcare for the three hours we are there and Davis HATES any kind of childcare.  So I just knew he was going to scream and scream and I would have to be in there with him the whole time.  I prayed and prayed that he would have a good day.  Well, the morning started off on a huge wrong foot when my phone somehow switched to Eastern time zone during the night and I didn't realize it until I was starting up the car to go to the gym at 4:11 AM.  Ugh!  I was SO upset because I was fighting a cold and I knew we had a big day ahead and I really needed that hour of sleep!  But I pulled it together and packed lunches while I waited an hour to leave for the gym.  On the drive to the gym I just prayed again that we would have a good day and that I wouldn't be too tired and that Davis would be good, etc.  Well, wouldn't you know... it turned out to be an amazing morning.  Davis stayed in the nursery the ENTIRE three hours without so much as one little fuss!!!!  Truly a miracle!  Seriously!! And the other three boys were so good, too, and had a great time.  I was so, so thankful!

Here they are before we left... We tried to get D in the picture but he wasn't having it.  :)

I'm finishing this post a week later and Davis was so good AGAIN in the childcare!  He stayed in there the whole time again!  I am so amazed and so thankful.  It makes such a difference for me and allows me to spend much more time with J and E.  

And to celebrate the start of school Davis learned to climb up on everything in the house, including the desks in the school room, which is wonderful.  (Lol)  Here he is teaching himself some letters from the top of the table (aka pulling each one off of the whiteboard and sticking it through the crack between the table and wall to let it drop to the floor.  Kept him busy for a while!  :)