School Days, Part 2

Today marks a monumental day for Cameron:  His 1st day of preschool!!  We both woke up very excited this morning.  He put his backpack by the door and was so excited to get dressed.  This morning dragged!!  He has school 4 days a week from 12:30 until 4 pm.  I couldn't believe how long it is every day!  I think that's longer than Kindergarten!!  They feed the kids lunch too.  Cameron's personality is going to thrive in school....this is going to be so good for both of us, I can tell.  They have an open-door volunteer policy, so Kristi & I are going to take turns volunteering each week.  Even though it's "just preschool", I feel like we've entered a new stage in life...one that I'm very excited for!  I'm very ready to be a "school mom" and also have lots of alone time with my Allie.

Best Buddies, Logan & Cameron, ready for school!

A 30-second walk from our door!

SO excited to hang up his backpack.  Does this kid look happy or what??

(By the way, I didn't send my son to school with a messy face...he got a chapped lower lip from 4-wheeling in Glenwood!)

All the kids were asked to write their name.  He just wrote CAM so we didn't hog the whole board...I need to come up with shorter names for our next kids!!  I love that he's a lefty!!

I'm such a nerdy mom....look how cute his bucket is!  That's my Cameron!!

Sitting in class, ready for lunch!

Waving goodbye!  See you in a few hours!! 

Kristi & I walked home together....not sure what to do with the silence the next few hours! It's weird sitting here all alone...Roo is napping. It's SO quiet!! I'm excited for this time now to do some real Gospel study like in the mission field, clean, relax, and chill with the Roo.

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This morning, I babysat cutie Miss Destanee.  She's 9 months old.  We were all sitting on the floor playing with cars, and Cameron goes, "Mom, I want another baby at our house like Destanee.  Another girl baby."  Me too, Cam, me too.  We've wanted another baby at our house for a long, long time now.  It kind of made me sad to hear him say that because I can tell he would be such a great big brother to another baby.  Allie too....she would flip if she had her own real baby to dote on every day!!  Sometimes it's hard to have patience and know that the Lord has His hand over everything in our lives.  It's funny how things usually don't seem to go according to "the plan".  I've made dozens and dozens of 'plans' in my life....and only one plan has actually gone the way I thought it would...and that was my plan to go on a mission.  Every other plan has taken a significant detour....including child spacing in our family.  But in the end, the Lord knew what He was doing.  My original plans would NOT have led me to this point in my life.  So I've learned to just play along, have faith, and put my trust in Him.  I pray daily that another baby and a job in Nashville are what the Lord wants for us this next year, but if it's not, then there will be a reason.  It's tough...I really, really want this plan to work out this time!!!  But Christ taught us how to live and how to approach life.  "For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me." John 6:38.  Isn't that the purpose of life?  To become like our Heavenly Father and ultimately become gods and goddesses ourselves?  Only through complete faith and using prayer and the Spirit to find our path in life will we be truly happy.