First Day of School

4 Months

4 Years

18 Years

I'll ask the question again. How did our babies get so old? Time flies so quickly. Michael's first day of COLLEGE is tomorrow. He will be attending The College at Southwestern. He'll be taking 4 classes and working 30+ hours at McKinney Bible Church. I think that job will involve less stress than the managing job at Sonic. (Dealing with the crazy people all day was getting at little old.)

I hope you have a great year. I know you'll work hard.

I love you, Michael!

My cute little skiers at 6 and 2!



My cute bigger skiers!

We gathered those pictures for Senior Recognition Service but thought I'd share them here, since those were kind of hard to see.

The other kids have started school already. They usually start with some enthusiasm, which quickly fades. We're still in the enthusiasm stage right now. Evan keeps telling me I'm the best teacher EVER! Of course, I'm the only teacher he's ever known, so with no competition, I'm not sure what sort of endorsement that is. Michele is insisting that she's going to finish in two years which is a year ahead of schedule, according to her age and starting point (since we moved her up a grade) - we'll see if she will keep up a pace to accomplish that. Aaron is still uniquely Aaron. I'm still looking for a language course in Swahili for the budding linguist. He was concerned last night that he can't type as fast as me - was becoming quite disturbed by the fact. I finally convinced him he just needed to keep practicing. He's been quite a good (and correct) little typist for several years (thanks to Timon and Pumba) compared to my texting children. They type very much like they text. They are very fast, but a typing teacher would probably have a fit watching them, and I'm pretty certain their method is not the most efficient. Note to self - pull out the Mavis Beacon (or Typing with Timon and Pumba) and try to convince them they'll thank me later if they master typing the correct way now. Teaching them all (or the three remaining ones, I guess) gets more challenging all the time especially while working too. I sometimes wish for the days when they were small and we all sat around learning together, studying anything and everything, reading wonderful books together - those were very special days. I'm so thankful we had them. I hope they've shaped in a small way the great kids they are growing in to. I love you all!
I hope it's a wonderful productive year for all of us.

And I hope this post works, since I've skipped out on work all day to figure it out.

And since I think I also figured the picture thing out, I'll post some of the other kids "doing school" soon. I'll see if this post works at all first.

I couldn't figure out how to get rid of these pictures, so I'll leave them here at the end. I'm afraid to mess with this post too much more in case I mess it up.