First Day of School

It's the first day of school! The kid's have been gone for an hour and a half. Only five and a half more hours. I can do this..... I will survive. IT'S TOO QUIET!!! Somebody make some noise already! My baby started Kindergarten today. There were a lot of tears and a few were even from him. lol Actually he was holding himself together.... barely... but he was until the little girl at his table started crying. He turned and stared straight at the wall and said, "I'm not ready Mom. I can't do this." My heart broke as that single first tear slid down his cheek. He was trying not too. Even said "Big Boys aren't supposed to cry!"

I hugged him and we said a little prayer right there in the middle of the class room. I'm sure I probably offended someone. I whispered it so that he could hear but wasn't forcing it on anyone, but when I stood up after, I saw another mother roll her eyes. I thought about telling her I'd pray for her too, but instead, I just bit my lip, got my Little Man a tissue, and helped him dry his eyes. Then I told him we needed to get him back in his seat, I motioned to let the teacher know I was leaving. She grinned and gave me a little nod, and I turned and ran like the coward I am.

Yep. I had to sneek away from my baby. I couldn't face any more tears. I hid in the hallway sneeking peeks in the door for a few minutes and it looked like he was doing okay. There haven't been any calls to come get my hysterical child yet. lol *Knocks on wood.*

Well, I've got a lot to do around here today. It's a good thing too, because I have a feeling this is going to be one LONG day! Dang..... It's only been about 3 minutes since the last time I looked at the clock. Yep.... this is gonna be a long day.

My little princess has graduated to being called Miss Thing now. lol She is in the 4th grade now, and  as you can see, she thinks she is all that and a bag of chips. I think she was trying to go for a sexy pose here. I'm so not ready for that. Oh, and she wants to shave her legs! What age do you start shaving your legs? I don't remember. I think I was in the fifth or sixth grade. She does have pretty hairy legs though, and says some of the others in her class already shave. Oh my, my little ones are growing up too fast!

Enjoy the pictures. I'm gonna go clean. And cry some more. lol

P.S. I am going to indulge myself in one last comment here that doesn't sound like something a preacher's wife should say. Little Man wanted to be home schooled. I was going to do it. I let Matt convince me that he at least needed to try going for Kindergarten. I told him last night what would happen if Little Man cried today. When Matt comes home..... I owe him a nice hard kick in the balls! Maybe I should just aim for the knee though. After all, I do want to have a baby. Probably should be damaging his goods just yet. :P