New School Year, New Excitement!

Oh, the blogging has to commence before tomorrow when school starts!

I wanted to share that Miss Clara Baillie has had her first camp experience. Even though it was only 1.5 days, it was a great time for her! The amazing women of our stake somehow made everything from a weeks worth of camp experiences fit into a day and a half! I don't know how they did it, but they did and it was a huge success. One of the saddest but neatest things was that Baillie shared that she was sad that she didn't have a sister at camp with her. "Everyone had a sister" was how she saw it. Then she actually let Kendahl know that she really wished she had been there. And she hugged her!! I thought that was really neat! They are two very different girls and it's not often I see the affection between them. So I was grateful. Not that Baillie felt alone, but that she realized the need for the love of a sister. Some day maybe they will find a need for one another.

In two and a half weeks we take Kendahl up to school. I am getting so nervous. I have high hopes for her and I also am scared to death to drop her off and let her live life on her own!! I think sometimes a mom is too close to see or know how their child will really handle themselves when given all the choices. Knowing their strengths as well as their weaknesses may not always be the best place to be.

What I do know is that she is capable and she is smart and she has it in her to live an amazing life. I love her smile and her laughter. She's friendly and while she thinks she will have a hard time getting along with room mates, I don't think she will! She's so cute, she made a blog for her college life. It's called "Probably Should Be Doing Homework". Here's the LINK to her page! So go read it from her point of view!

We have a busy week ahead! Should be fun. Carter is going to be in 10th grade, Clara Bay is in the 7th, and Brodric will be in the 3rd. I'm excited for them all!  We also start up piano again this week. Yay for that because I've had it with wasting time!! I'd rather them be playing piano. They played enough video games this summer to last a year!!  I told them tonight that we will be video game free for two weeks and then we'll see how it goes from there. I could let them go forever. The blessing we have as far as video games go is that our kids play very mild video games. No shooting, killing stuff!  Grateful!!! 

So, here we go!!  :)