Back to school...

I hope you don't mind this crafty break!  Today is the:

Is it just me, or does the first day of school really mark the end of summer?  Morning came earlier than usual today, and was much more of a bustle-y affair – we’d gotten used to staying in our pj’s until at least 9am… 

Sending Sofia on that big yellow bus was almost as nerve-wrecking as it was last year for kindergarten.  She still looked so tiny climbing those steps with her too-big backpack.   I know that she’s lost a few friends to other schools, and I pray that she finds some familiar faces in the "big-kid" schoolyard…  

 Thomas starts his second year of pre-school, but with a new teacher.  He had a hard time at the end of last year, and I’m hoping that school is a happy place for him this time around.  But when no one is looking, I'm probably going to have to sneak a hug to his last year's teacher - I love her so!

Appropriately enough, my devotion this morning was about New Beginnings.  Going back to school is always a time of new things and fresh beginnings.

I’m so thankful that God gives us this new, fresh start each and every day.  There’s an old hymn that I love:

Great is thy faithfulness!  

Morning by morning new mercies I see;

All I have needed they hand hath provided;

Great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!

ps, thank you to the big, giant, fabulous apple from Winners' fall decor section for making this mini-photo session possible :)

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