Monday August 27

I feel completely emotional exhausted today.

I cannot believe school starts tomorrow.

I feel very unprepared for this.

And since I am unprepared.....I feel like the kids are too.

I feel bad sending them to school unprepared.

But maybe they are ready.....and I am just not.

I don't know.

I pray that Madi will feel peace and find friends and have a fun time.

I don't want her to stress.....I want this to be fun for her.

I think I have done a good job hiding from her how I really feel about this happening.

I know she will do great.

I know she will.

I just wish we could skip past any hurt feelings, or being left out, or feeling lost.

But I guess that is all part of growing up.

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Cassi is excited.

Sounds like she has a great teacher.....but she doesn't know many of her kids in her class.

Which is never really a problem with Cassi.

She finds friends in 2 minutes.

But she does have some nervousness going on.

My fear with her is that I hope she really knows how much she is loved.

I feel like we are always ragging on Cassi for something.....

I hate that we do that.

She reminds me of what I was probably like at her age.

She is such a great kid.....and I want her to know that.

We all think she is amazing!

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Then there is Elsie bug.

I don't even know what to think.

I don't have ANY idea of how tomorrow will go.

I know she is excited.

I know she loves her teacher.

She loves her classroom.

But I worry about her at recess.....I worry about her when kids start running around her.

I worry about kids making fun of her for how she talks or walks.

I feel like crying right now.

I have already done too much of that today thinking of it all.

 

But how can I not, I am their Mom.

I know I have to put these little ones out into the world......but it just scares me.

I just love them so much and I don't ever want them to feel sad or lonely or scared.

 

How awesome is this that we found this book at the library????

Super awesome!!!

She loves it.

I hope it helps get her pumped up tomorrow :)

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Another reason for my emotional exhaustion.....

Baby Henley Jane was born today.

And I got to be there.

Jenni asked me if I would photograph the birth.

It was amazing....

Being there while Jenni incredibly did it all with no epidural....as Brad would say, like a Rock Star!!!

But also seeing new life enter this world.

Absolutely amazing.

 

Thanks Jenni and Brad for letting me be there to share it all with you.

And I am so excited that you have pictures to remember forever :)

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Tonight we took the kids to Wendy's for a special back to school dinner.

 

In all reality....

I have had no time to do real shopping, and we have no groceries.

So we went out.....

They thought it was great :)

And you gotta top it off with a frosty.