Well we are officially home from all our summer trips!! We are different than many other families in that we travel for half if not more of the summer each year going on student missions trips and family vacation. This year’s travels included Philadelphia, St. Thomas, New York, Costa Rica and Texas :) Not every family member was on each trip, but details are for another blog.
For now we are HOME, and it feels good!! Currently, Addie and Emma are sleeping in (something they rarely do!!) and Owen and Isabelle are enjoying playing with familiar things (right now that would be Ranger!)
So this week it is all about getting ready for school to start and the fall schedule to come rushing in with the cool breeze and the leaves beginning to change. Every year I say the same thing “I just love fall!!!!” I can’t wait to see those beautiful round orange pumpkins and plant some mums by the mailbox.
Tomorrow I take the girls to get their hair cut. They have been growing it long to be able to give to Locks of Love again, so the cut will be drastic. Brian will take Addie and Emma each on a date to get a new school outfit and have a good talk before the year starts. I need to fill out all those papers and forms for schools. Each year I have to write out a color coded schedule of who does what when so I can get it memorized.
We have our first leadership meeting tomorrow with the small group leaders for Jr and Sr High. In the car yesterday we went through the list of leaders who are wanting to work in Mpact again this year and the new ones 
so we are getting our minds wrapped around a new year.
It is the beginning of a new school year and we bid the summer with all its wonders and heartaches farewell! Maybe I will gather some sharpened pencils and put them in a vase, as You’ve Got Mail talked about the smells of fall are coming.
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