A week of firsts

I find it hard to believe that it’s mid-day on Sunday afternoon, I’ve made eggs & hash browns for the kids at breakfast, got everybody through church relatively peacefully, put up 15 pounds of tomatoes, cleaned up the kitchen & now, I have my feet up on the couch and everybody else is asleep.

This is too good to be true, what’s going to go wrong later?

So many exciting events this week, it’s hard to prioritize. Eden had her first birthday party yesterday for a friend from church who was turning 6 years old. Eden could hardly wait to go all day yesterday and when lunch was over, she waited by the front door for her daddy to come take her.

At the party, they made little paper & sticker butterflies and she’s hung it on her wall and taken it down to play with at least a hundred times in the last 24 hours.

Eden had such a great time and she asked me in the car afterwards if she could do it again next week. I said that, unfortunately for her, this little girl’s birthday only came around once a year.

Eden also had her first day of preschool this week. There were no tears, no fears & no problems what-so-ever. Every other mom stayed for a while, kids clinging & wondering what was going to happen next. Eden, blanket by her side, took off for the door and said, “Bye, Mom!”

Kindergarten is going to kill me.

Lars had his first day of speech therapy on Friday and, though his sister desperately wanted to help him, he did fine on his own. Lisa is his therapist and came to the house at 0900, his happiest time of day. They looked at books and pointed to things out the window, generally got a feel for each other. I think it’s going to be a good thing and hope to see progress sooner rather than later.

Not to be outdone with ‘firsts’, the preacher had his first funeral in this congregation this week. Yes, we’ve been here just shy of 3 years.

Early Tuesday morning, the phone rang and Pastor was out the door by 0700 to be with the family. Because of extended family coming from several states away, the funeral wasn’t until Saturday, a blustery & rainy day. The church was packed, but we still had plenty of cake left-over in the end.

I can’t think of any firsts for me this week, but I am wrapping up teaching my first EMT class here in town. I’ve had a lot of fun with the class and hope to teach another in the future. We have two weeks left. First, however, I need a month off!

Eden and I went to the library to get some books yesterday and to our surprise, Tammy, her ‘old’ daycare provider, is the new librarian. It was very exciting to see Tammy and talk to her again and she’s promised to look for the lost book, Chick-a-chick-a-Boom-Boom, which has been checked in but missing almost all summer. I refuse to buy it, in fear of having to read it every night for the rest of my life.

Overall, it was another busy but blessed week in our house. I’m so excited for fall to be here. I’m ready to clean up the gardens, finish canning and head to the pumpkin patch!~

I think I have my son’s birthday to figure out first, though, now that I think about it…