first day of school.

The kids started school last week. They all love their teachers. Sarah loves jr high. She likes having so many different teachers and classes.  Becca loves 6 th grade. She does have a little struggle not melting down when she doesn't understand something. Mostly math. We talked about what she could do instead of cry. David loves 3rd grade. Emma is trying to love kindergarten. 

Emma had to wait a week after the other kids started to go to school. The first day she was excited and enthusiastic.  We went to the gardens with my sister right after school and on the way home Emma fell asleep.  The second day she came and hugged me and told me how much she loved me. She went to a friends house after school and when she came home she crashed taking another nap. The third day she came home and we went to the park for a picnic. Once again a nap. That night she woke up at 3pm saying she had a headache. The next morning she didn't want to go to school, but I told her she had to be throwing up or have a fever to miss school...it was hard because she looked so miserable. She went to school. When she came home she burst into tears and said it was just too long to be at school and missed me so so much. Talk about heartbreak!  Fortunately we have a long weekend. We will try to get her to bed earlier hopefully that will help. We talked about different things she could do at school if she missed me.  Sing a song in her head, say a prayer, take deep breathes. 

 It was quite weird these last few days having a little time without children. Nice, but weird. In 13 years all my children will be 18 or older. That is CRAZY!  It seems like just yesterday that Sarah was born and now she is 13 almost 14. The next 13 years I am sure will fly by. This year I am going to help a lot in the kids classes and at the school.