A New School Year Begins

Today was the first day of school for my girls.

If you are thinking that I just wrote about getting out of school 6 weeks ago,

you would be correct. We did just get out of school about 6 weeks ago.

We had a very hard winter in this little mountain town so there were many, many snow make up days.

Combine that with the fact that we finally qualified {this year, of course} for the exemption from the law in NC that school can't start until August 25th and that makes for a super short summer.

{SIGH}

SO, here we are.....

My Allis is a fourth grader this year....

My Maggie is in the 3rd grade.....

My Lillie is in the 1st grade.....

Everyone was excited to head off to school.

Even baby brother, who starts preschool tomorrow

but who, insisted on carrying his backpack this morning also.

I love this picture....

I know I've been MIA for a while....

Life has been nuts for many, many reasons

that hopefully I can come back and document here soon.

in HIM-