Week of Beginnings

We started school

Not as ready

as mom would have liked

Schedule rough

sleep not yet

fully caught up

Supplies and books

rather scattered still

Chinese school began

with visible relief seen

on girls'  faces

when told

only Saturday mornings

A rushed, not quite ready

morning departure

made void 

by being 1/2 hour early

A grade 3/4 split

pleasing sisters

staying together this time

Sunday School too

New classrooms and friends

Hundreds of kids

Getting them all in the right places

an organized chaos

STRECH class at church

a wonderful provision

 a homeschool class

during women's study program

New kids to know

"my age finally!"

Grace whispers.

Class time

new learning

Another teacher for a time

Choir for Mommy

meaning an evening of Daddy care

Exceptions and extras

Inevitable late bedtimes

made Mom tolerable by

choir singing euphoria

An amazing tonic

Long awaited

Often asked for

AWANA back in play

Tonight!

Another late night

How will we fare?

Another Daddy evening

Mom getting 

uninterrupted planning time

And then

Mommy hopes

we're done with

new beginnings 

for awhile at least