Grant, Christine, Grace, Thaddeus, Madelyn & Ephraim: Kindergarten

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."

— Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"None of us come to this earth to gain our worth; we brought it with us."

--Sheri L. Dew

Friday, August 31, 2012

Kindergarten

Here is our Kindergartner!! She was pretty excited the first day. Especially when she found out the night before that I would be staying with her and then taking her home after only 1 hour. They had a parent meeting/overview of paperwork and the kids got to go and do something fun in another room. Then Thursday, her real first day, she walked right in and didn't even turn around to wave! And I didn't cry either, good news for us both I guess. She loves everything about school and comes home teaching us how to sit "criss-cross-applesauce" and where she got to go that day and her "homework". I couldn't ask for a better child! She already loves her teacher because "she teaches me lots of stuff". We already have some friends, but we don't know their names :)