best goals EVER for pre-k

full moon again...

So that means crazy lunatic girl can't sleep again, so she's been surfing the net, catching up on all her sweet girlfriends' doings! BTW, this is probably the last thing I should be doing right now. I think you're supposed to read books, because the computer gets you all jazzied up even more than you already are....

So Heather is back blogging, so if you haven't checked her out in a while, get to it. She's got some amazing things to say about beauty... I love Lauren's classroom, Lindsey's joke make me laugh, Rach has the most beautiful children ever, and everybody loves pregnant pics!

I've got some thoughts brewing about wisdom, and how in the world do we try to impart it to our kiddos so that they don't have to learn the hard way like we did, but that'll have to wait till later, cause I think that I might be getting tired? Love to all!

school's in!!

This has been a big week for our family! Miss K had her very first ever day of school today! What fun. She's going to preschool 2 days a week, from 9 until 2. We've been gearing up for it, and today the drive to school was very exciting....until we pulled into the parking lot: "Mommy, I'm a little nervous and scared," she said. Inside my head, I was saying, "Me too, pumpkin. I can't believe it's time for you to spend a day away from me!" But my voice was saying, "That's OK, precious. It's OK and normal to be nervous and scared about new things. Let's pray that God would help you with that today!" We bravely approached her classroom, and her first words to Ms. Sheli were, "I'm a little scared right now." To which Ms. Sheli replied, "That's OK, baby! I am, too! The first day of school is always tricky." Indeed!

But a lovely day was had by all. After Miss MA got over the shock of "sissy" being gone, she was content to hang out with me all by her little self, or as Miss K put it, "go to school with mommy." Miss K was very impressed with scissor safety, and playing with boys on the playground (oh, dear?).

So time marches on! My big girl is in school. I actually didn't shed tears, but almost thought about it yesterday when she said, "Mommy, when I am a grown-up lady, will I still live with you?" SIGH. Launching....we approach it so often with these dear little ones entrusted to our care, don't we? Thank you, Father, for the time we've had, and will continue to have, cocooning our precious little ones. Help us to do that well, and when it's time to approach these inevitable launches, help us to also do that well, and rejoice as we watch our children fly.

a princess tea party

K's birthday party was Saturday, and while these pictures don't really capture the cuteness of all our little princesses (I wish you all could have been here!), it's a start!

depth perception

About every 6 months, we take K to the Retina Foundation in Dallas, something her opthamologist recommends we do to help her little eyes develop the best they can. 2 visits ago, honey took her, and was surprised to learn through some tests they gave her, that she has no depth perception. That's defined by wikipedia as "the visual ability to perceive the world in three dimensions...Depth perception allows the beholder to accurately gauge the distance to an object." I took her again last week, and they again administered these tests. I laughed and said that I probably didn't have any either, so the guy working there let me take the tests as well. Guess what? I was absolutely right. No depth perception whatsoever. So many things fell into place at that moment: my inability to play basketball explained, my inability to see those "magic" pictures that were so popular when I was in high school, all the running into corners and walls that I do... I can't accurately gauge distance to objects! I'm not denying my natural clumsiness, but this at least explains part of it!

Made me think. Several weeks ago, our pastor was talking about biblical authority, one of the core values of our church. He stated that having knowledge of Scripture is a bit like having a full can of paint in the garage - it doesn't do much good until you get it out and apply it! Jesus' teaching at the end of His Sermon on the Mount emphasizes this: Everyone who hears these words of Mine, and acts upon them, may be compared to a wise man, who built his house upon the rock, and the rains descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and burst upon that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded upon the rock. And everyone who hears these words of Mine, and does not act upon them, will be like a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and burst against that house; and it fell, and great was its fall (Matt. 7:23-27). Do you see it there? Both of these guys had the same information: the difference in their outcomes was the application of that information.

This idea has been really good for me to ponder. I come from a background where knowledge is highly valued. Many places I've been highly emphasize what one knows about the Bible. And that's great: there's nothing wrong with biblical knowledge. But when I don't apply what I know about the Bible, I'm in danger of being wiped out by the storms that life will inevitably bring.

So depth perception...I might think that I'm safe and sound on the rock, with a firm, really deep foundation, but I wonder if, in reality, lots of the time I'm just a few inches deep in the sand. Father, help me to apply those things that I know of your Word, and of those things that I'm learning everyday. I desire a deep, firm foundation that's not shaken by the storms of life, that reflects a heart that desires to obey all that You've given us, even when it's really hard to do.

Our small group assignment after that lesson was to look at James 1:19-27, and really ponder it, so there's the challenge, ladies! That's a birthday pic of our little depth perception-challenged ladybug, by the way. She turned 4 yesterday!

Dixie & Lulu dance the cucuracha

Oh my....I'm sure there are a million better things to post about, but this made us laugh....