normal
I have sent four children off to junior high school, one by one. They planned out their first-day-of-school outfits. They poured over the supply lists. They packed up their backpacks…
the first day of school 2016
These three marched out the door yesterday with huge smiles stretched across their faces: They set off at three different times to three different schools, and left me behind wondering…
the last days of school and graduation prep
School went ahead and wrapped up in the desert nice and early (May 19th). I’m mad about how early it gets out because that means we start way too early…
peace out, elementary school
With all the graduation hoopla surrounding Elle, we can’t skim over Claire’s graduation from elementary school. Because that’s kind of big deal too, don’t you think? This girl is…
Hello! and goodbye to Elle, for a little while
Hello!! We are here, alive and well (as well as you can be in the desert at 118 degrees…ha!). We have been traveling for the last few weeks and…
we have a high school cheerleader in the house
Ok, now that all that college-drop-off-hoopla-excitement-tears are documented (but far from over…I still can’t go near his room without weeping but it is so fun to talk to him when…
the BYU drop-off
So after all the blubbering and heart-wrench (last post), we headed to take our boy up to start his life as an official BYU Cougar. As you can tell, he…
the first day of school 2015
We have the BEST girl who is willing to come to our house to cut our hair so we lucked out and got her to come the night before the…
the end of summer glory days
It’s late on Tuesday night and by the time this posts it will be the first day of school. The glory days of summer will have already begun to fade…