Growing up!

How have we gone from this


to this

in such a short time? I can't believe my baby boy is in kindergarten! He had a great day and says he LOOOOOOVES kindergarten! He thought it was hilarious that his teacher read them a book called "Mrs. Bindergarten gets ready for Kindergarten." He laughed every time he told me. :)

I'm glad my little man is growing up but it makes me so sad sometimes, too! He's such a sweet, smart boy and I'm blessed to be his mommy!

Reading the Bible

I admit that reading and spending time in the Bible is not something I am good about doing regularly. It's hard because I tend to get bored reading through something I'm very familiar with (or that I can't get into - particularly the books written in poetry. I'm NOT a poetry peson) and my mind drifts and then I realize I've been "reading" and haven't taken in a single thing. I recently started a new Bible reading "system" that someone shared on Facebook - The Prof. Horner Bible-Reading System (this is how it's listed on Facebook if you want to look it up). The way this works is that he has separated the Bible into 10 lists:

-The Pentateuch (Genesis through Deuteronomy)
-OT History (Joshua through Esther)
-Psalms
-Proverbs
-Wisdom books (Job, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs)
-Major and minor prophets (Isaiah through Malachi)
-The Gospels
-Acts
-Major Epistles (Romans, 1-2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, -Colossians, Hebrews)
-Other NT (1-2 Thessalonians, 1-2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, James, 1-2 Peter, 1-2-3 -John, Jude, Revelation)

You read one chapter from each list each day, so you're reading 10 chapters per day. Each list is a different length so you finish them up at different times - when you get to the end of the list you start back at the beginning. Acts and Proverbs you read through every month. I won't say that I'm now perfect about reading every day but it is much easier for me to get into and focus since I'm switching up books and authors every few minutes. And I also like, as someone else posted, that "the 10 different readings bring out a lot of overall Bible themes as I jump through different time periods of God’s unfolding redemptive plan." And I love that as I finish a list I start over and I'm reading it along with DIFFERENT passages. It puts things into another perspective when you read them in relation to different things. Does that make sense?

Just a note: I was reading in Joshua last night right before the battle of Jericho when the angel comes and Joshua asks him, "Are you for us or against us?" I totally couldn't read it without picturing Larry the Cucumber and Archibald Asparagus.

Random

We went to visit Auntie Chara and Unclie Brad. Chara said she's going to tell her kids that my kids are their cousins so Brad decided he would have to be Unclie Brad. Ha! Brian and I have decided that Brad was a good addition to our "family." Good job, Chara! :)

I've been working this weekend on lots of stuff for the pre-k classroom and I'm pretty excited. And I got to go to the teacher store which is always fun. Except that I always want to buy WAY more than I should! :) Been working on lesson plans, too, and I'm almost done!

Kyler started the kindergarten class at church this morning. He wasn't sure about it because he's very much like me and would rather things just stayed the same but I reassured him that all of his friends would still be in class with him and he'd have lots of fun. After church I asked him who his new teacher is and he said, "I don't know...but the class was GREAT!" He's so funny. Oh...but he wasn't a fan of coming into the service with Mommy and Daddy for the music part. Hopefully as he gets to know some of the songs he'll decide that's more fun!

Brian starts back to work tomorrow and then next Monday Kyler starts school. Crazy! I can't believe summer's already over! This Wednesday I start watching Laura and Creed 2 days a week. This should be a great distraction for my sweet girl who will be missing her big brother while he's gone all day! Hopefully it will help her learn to share Mommy, too. She's not so good at that one. :)

Speaking of that sweet little girl, she's awake so I'd better go and hang out with the family before real life starts again tomorrow!

I hate it when I get so wound up...

Last night I laid in bed and mind was just going, going, going. I usually tend to fall asleep very easily but I found out last week that I am very likely going to be taking over the 4 year old room at Mother's Day Out next year and my director wants it to be run like a real pre-k room, rather than glorified baby-sitting. You have no idea how excited I am by this. I mean, I've had a teaching degree for 6 years and this is my first chance to really USE it. And I'm telling you, I'm going to use it. If it is within my power, we are going to have an organized, structured classroom with rules, consequences and lessons. And fun, too. :) But they've had that all along. Anyway, so last night I was working on what lessons I want to do for the first semester (basic colors, shapes, A-M and 1-10. Exciting, no? :) ) and when I went to bed I just had a running list of all the things I want to change in, add to, and make for the classroom. Now I'm just praying that I'll get a teaching partner who will be on board with all my plans!

I am also excited about something else that also had plans running through my head, but that's a post for another day. Like, in a few weeks.

Super Wasp

When I got out of the shower this morning there was a wasp flying around my bathroom. I went and got the fly swatter and hit it and it fell in the sink. I washed it down the drain and let the hot water run for a few minutes. Then I went about getting ready for the day. I heard a weird noise from the direction of the sink and then Melissa said, "Another wasp, Mama!" I turned around and that wasp had come up out of the drain and was trying to fly again! I made sure it was good and dead this time before flushing it down the toilet. I don't like wasps. Or bees, hornets, yellow jackets. Anything with a stinger. Beyond the fact that I don't want to be stung, my dad is allergic to stinging insects and so I know that there's the chance that one or both of my children could be allergic.

Alrighty, right now we're going to go out and ride bikes. The kids have been begging everyday so I'm going to get it out of the way right now while it's 83 degrees instead of them begging again later when it's over 100!

Back to blogging?

I know I haven't posted in forever. Tonight I was looking for my birth story about Melissa so I made a trek back over to Xanga. I loved Xanga for a long time - I started my blog there very shortly before I got pregnant with Kyler and continued until April 2009. I really need to take the time to transfer most of those posts into a word document or something because there are great stories about my kids that I want to have to look back at. That's what I've been doing tonight and I just love reading about how much my kids have changed! I typically just post short status updates these days on Facebook but that's not the same as blogging! It's not something I can keep and read later on! So I'm going to try to get back into this blogging stuff. I may post some of my money saving tips and ideas on here. We'll see.

Tonight we went out to dinner and on the way home the kids were talking about church and Kyler said, "I can't WAIT for church!" I love that they love to go to church! Now if I could just convince him that it will be fun to come sit with Mommy and Daddy during the music part of the service next week when he moves up to Kidz Place - he's not so excited about that. (And I can't believe he's old enough!)

Okay, I'm up WAY past my bedtime with all this blog-reminiscing. My 2 hour nap this afternoon has made it possible for me to even keep my eyes open this long. :) Good night!