School Daze

School has officially started...well ok so this is the second week, but I'm just barely starting to get somewhat back to normal after our move. It was a bittersweet day. On the one hand the boys were starting kindergarten and so for me that meant FREEDOM...or does it? I thought that I would be so excited for them to take this next big step AND for me to have so much free time. But in all honesty when I got home the house just felt so empty. I thought back to when my kids were just babies, and then toddlers and then young children. I cried as I realized that my "baby" had grown and that nothing would be the same. Even though Brooklyn has been in school for sometime now I missed that cute, very talkative little girl and wondered as so many before me..."Where did the time go?" Wasn't I just changing diapers a few days ago? Watching them learn to walk and talk and potty training. Convincing them there really are NO monsters under the bed, (although I still have to do that now and then :-) ) Rocking them to sleep, holding their little hands, playing patty cake?? Although I wasn't there for all of those milestones with Levi and Kalysta I know their Dad and their mom must feel the same. So yes, while I am excited for this new "freedom" I think I would trade it in a second to have just a few more weeks or months or years....
Here are all of our wonderful children on their first day of school. (Sniffle, Sniffle)