My Happy Ever After

I'm going to do my best to keep this short and sweet. I have always struggled with the right education choice for my children. Homeschool, public school, private school? What is best for us? I was homeschooled and I truly believe it is the best education a child can get. We tried it. We tried public school. We tried homeschool again. Finally I have peace, my kids are going to a Charter School, and not just any charter school but one that is 12 minutes from my house and founded my a couple of county teachers that were fed up with the system and wanted to create a better way. Of course I was nervous for a change in schools for Asher and Laila's very first experience away from me all day. Open House changed everything. Let me preface this story with saying Tim and I have prayed about what the right choice was and prayed our kids would get matched with the right teachers. Especially our Laila girl, so shy, non-verbal except parents and siblings, so anxious about things someti...

We made it! (almost) I have so many feelings about this. I'm happy with how the summer went, keeping the kids busy on a budget! I enforced one day "off" a week where we got to stay home. There were people I planned on seeing that it didn't work out, I still hope to make that happen though. Just minus the kids 😂 There were only 1 or 2 things we didn't get done that we wanted to and I'm fighting the perfectionist in me to be able to say it was a successful summer anyway. This week we will try and tie up all the loose ends, run a few errands, do some back to school haircuts, get prepped for Small Group, and Open House!!! A couple fun things to celebrate the end of Summer too, our $4 movie theater is showing Aladdin and the girls are dying to see it, so we're going on Wednesday 😉 Asher is excited about school, a little nervous to start in a new place. (We are transitioning into a Charter School this year) He's going into 5th grade, this year can tak...

We don't always go up north for a whole week but this time we did! My baby brother got married (woohoo!) So we made the best of it. I'm gonna be honest and tell you that it wasn't my favorite trip back home. Some trips are just so much fun and we do so many things, seeing so many people. This was one of those trips where things didn't go quite as planned. For the last few years we've stayed at my parents house but as sleeping situations have been altered, siblings gotten bigger and one moving back home it's not as easy to find space for my crew as it has been. I found out both my cousin and sister were coming to town and staying there too so that sealed the deal, we get to stay at Grandmom's!  Ana remembered Grandmom's front porch swing and wanted to go out there almost as soon as we arrived. So we sat and swang, swung, swinged.... 🤷🏼‍♀️ Grandmom pulled out the bug nets and containers, the kids caught so many fireflies as the sun set. I live...