Growing up and getting over her fears

Mary Kate took another big step in growing up...She got over her fears and sang today in church.  A solo, acapella...in front of about 400 people!  I am so proud of her.  She sang Amazing Grace after the pastor performed two baptisms.  It was so beautiful.  Enjoy the video!

Circus Act...

Did you ever go to the circus and see those people that balance all sorts of teetery things on their forehead or nose?  They get them stacked up like 10 feet high.  Its all great, but if they so much as move a millimeter one way that they shouldn't have, it ALL comes CRASHING down...That is how my life feels right now...not in a bad way, but kinda in a stressful way.  I have a huge event that I have been coordinating this year and it is on Saturday.  I love event planning and I really do thrive off of the energy and busyness...But right now, less than 48 hours out, I feel like one wrong move and everything will come .....well, you get the picture!  It is good to know that there are people out there praying for me! 

School is Cool...I think...I don't remember...

So today is the end of day three of Kindergarten.  All in all, it is going quite well.  Mary Kate loves her teacher and the playground and the computer lab where she gets to play alphabet games.  Today she got to use a computer with headphones and so she got to hear the sounds of the game as well.  She also got to play on the swing today which she didn't get to play on yesterday because they were wet from rain and she didn't get to play on Monday because everyone else was taking all the recess time on the swings.  Her teacher calls her Mary Kate, but her art teacher still calls her Mary.  I told her she would have to politely ask her art teacher to call her Mary Kate.  I am doing well all things considering.  It is so much quieter in the house during the day.  Dropping her off is hard because she is still learning her way around the school.  Parents are only allowed to walk them to the lobby and after that only kids and staff get past all the locked doors.  I LOVE this about the school, but It is hard.  I am having to trust the staff of the school to make sure my baby doesn't wander around aimlessly, and I am having to let her go and grow up and learn how to ask for help and learn her way around.  It is hard...she looks so lost and little when I drop her off.  She told me this afternoon when I asked her if she found the auditorium that she didn't, but a teacher helped her.  So someone did see that she needed help and asked her what grade she was in and led her there.  I find I am praying for her so much more than I ever did.  Isn't it funny how much more we pray when we are forced to have Faith.  The situations where I have no control are the ones I know I have to pray through.  Overall, we are all good.  It was weird to have just Brianna on Monday and it is still weird with just Bria and Chey.  Like I said, quieter, especially during nap time.  Tomorrow I start back to work with a training day.  Should be fun...it will be nice to get back to the swing of things in our normal schedule. 

Kindergarten

Mary Kate starts Kindergarten on Monday.  I am so not ready.  Tonight we have meet the teacher night which should be exciting.  It also hit me the other night that tonight is signups for the PTA and such...I am about to become a PTA mom.  YIKES!  When did I grow up?  When did my girls grow up?  The PTA is for...my mom, not me!  Don't they give away free minivans and mom jeans with your PTA membership?  Wow...I feel like an old lady...really though, it is one thing to have kids, It is entirely something else to have school age kids.  Well...ready or not...here we come, jumping into the world of school!  Feet first!  With a box of kleenex!  Pray for us!