My new teacher hair and 1st day of school!

Hey guys how is everyone??? I am in full swing of the Pre K teacher cult! Last week I ate, slept, and breathed Pre-K! I think my room is finally finished and we met all the kids at "Meet the Teacher" on Thursday night. I think that I will have a great class. They all seemed very nice and ready to come to school. There are a few of them that might have a hard time letting go of Mom and Dad but, I think they will do fine. I officially will start on Tuesday with a full class of 13 kids! I am nervous and excited all at the same time. I really can't wait to get the first week behind me and get into a routine! Lift me in prayer as you go about your week! I'll need all the help I can get!

The boys had great first weeks of school! Jared missed the first day while still recovering from strep throat but was able to make it the second day. Aaron had a great week and has such a cute teacher! He reported that, "there sure are a lot of rules in the 1st grade!" Apparently, he forgot he had rules last year also! He came home with two treats from the prize box for good behavior and something else, so he had a great week. Jared hit the ground running in third grade and had a spelling test on Friday. He also had homework almost every night but he is always so good at getting it done. The main thing is to get him started and make sure he doesn't take any detours. He could do everything in 10 minutes but wanders around and goofs off for about 45 minutes. Caleb had an OK week. He likes band and team leadership but could really do without everything else. We are still fighting and waiting to see what type of tutoring or dyslexia training the school system will provide this year. I pray they let his tutor come back. Everyone else is going to be dumped into a video class that teaches the dyslexia program. We are fighting and trying to make the case that Caleb would be bored and would not gain anything from it. I so want the school to just let him keep what he did last year. It helped him so much!



Brian is working and is in the middle of hiring a youth minister for our church. He is on a committee that makes the selection and brings them in front of the church. They really have been praying and search for God's will. He is doing a great job and we just pray that the committee comes to the man God has for the job. He has really been burdened and seeking God face about this. It just means so much to us to have the right man for the job since Caleb will move to the youth group this year.

Well that is our update for the week. It's not earth shattering. On Monday we had a swimming party for my work to meet all my kids. On Tuesday we had a night off. On Wednesday we had ANOTHER swimming party for our church to celebrate back to school. On Thursday, I had meet the teacher at St. Luke and Brian got called into work at 8:30 p.m. and didn't make it home until 4:00 a.m.. Then he had to go to work at the next day and had to wake up at 6:00 a.m. On Friday night, we had family night and watched movies, made speggitti and brownies! The boys love our family nights! I do too! It's one of my favorite times! On Saturday we had two funerals to attend and then crashed!

Well, I had better get up and get to bed. Pray for Wayne and Judy they are in San Antonio with the Baptist Men feeding truck, cooking for the evacuies from New Orleans. They hope to be home by Friday.

Much love to all!
JJ