Back to School!!

Well, it's back to school week for us. Back to routines, back to homework, piano lessons, football and soccer. Back to time to do things for myself, for projects, and a couple of college classes. Time for family history and reading. On the flip side back to worry about how the kids are at school, and what kinds of things they are having to be faced with each day. But my kids are strong most of the time, and hopefully prepared to face whatever they have to face. I realized yesterday as I was thinking - (there's a lot of time to think without someone following me around all day) - my kids are growing up. I'm not sure I'm ready for that. But I have 2 and almost 3 teenagers in my home already. I realized that I need to let them grow up, I need to allow them to be who they are, and allow them to have the experiences that will help them grow up. And then just pray a lot that they will be strong - that they will be the latter day stripling warriors - that they will know who they are. So, ready or not - here we go.