I survived week 1~

For all 2 of you who ever read this I wanted to let you know that I have indeed survived the first week of school. Granted it wasn't a full 5 days of school, but 4 ain't bad! :)
So the first day of school was Tuesday and it wasn't a bad day. Kids were all up and ready to get on the bus at least 20 min before they needed to be at the end of our driveway. THEN because it was the first day of school the bus was 10 min behind schedule so we sat outside and took all of those great first day of school pictures for quite awhile. I couldn't tell who was more nervous me or my baby girl! She went to Kindergarten this year and while she was really excited to go you can see on her face in a few pictures that there are moments where she's truly contemplating whether or not this is really a good decision. For the first time EVER in 6 years of sending my children to school (wow I can't believe this is the 6th time I've done this) my husband decided to stay at home with me. I think it was because he saw how much I cried when we took the youngest to preschool last year. He did stay home for preschool for each one of the kids, but never actual school. I didn't cry when they got on the bus or when it pulled away although I almost lost it when I saw her little face pushed up against the bus window with her blonde dutch braids sticking out behind her head waving at me while they pulled away. Then it was inside to finish getting ready and off to the school to get her off the bus and walk her into her first day...which by the way she really didn't want me to do! Apparently she KNEW where her class was and she didn't NEED my help! (eyeroll)
The rest of the week went pretty well and I stayed busy with friends and family so that I wouldn't have to think about any of them being gone and I wanted my little daycare boy for a couple days this week.....AND then FRIDAY came. Now Friday should be a good day for anyone because hello it's Friday...but for me Friday this week was a really BAD day.

You see 2 of my friends have gone back to the East Coast (COOOAST....sorry inside joke). And the fact that they're gone has made me sad, plus the kids were getting on the bus, plus no extra kid, plus my husband left for men's retreat with our church. It was so eerily quiet in my house! I've been needing to have a good long cry and yesterday was the day to let it all out. But the day ended well with my some of my girlfriends coming over to eat pizza and watch "Letter's to Juliet" which was a great movie and I really enjoyed watching it! I'm praying next week goes much more smoothly than this one!