Every year we prepare for our kids to start another year of school and the two weeks leading up as it starts here at the Regeti household can get pretty crazy if I must say so!
From our oldest returning to the dorm on campus for her Junior year of college, our 10th grader just now getting his permit to drive and wanting to be the cool kid, our now 9th grader that would really love to be anywhere else but school yet always has to try to one up his older brother wherever he can academically (very slim margin here I might add), then onto our 7th grader who would live at school if we let her as she’s simply the socialite and loves all of her teacher’s and if that doesn’t sound like enough…. add a super demanding little brother (now 6 months old) to the picture and try to shop for all the back to school preparations and supply list! If only there was enough time in a day…
Not a second of it would I trade, for we know we are blessed. As I dropped my two boys for their first day of high school, being back together again they are deeply enthused, my youngest daughter just hoping I don’t embarrass her or taint her reputation as she runs off to join her friends and the restlessness that fills us as we watch the oldest drive herself away for the first time alone for 3 hours back to campus. I slowly, in deep thought walk back into the quiet house with our youngest now in tow, quietly holding and rocking him in his nursery, I silently weep at where the time has gone, a little prayer leaves my thoughts as I count my blessings and remind the Lord of how grateful I am for the time that I have, the memories we have and the blessings he bestows.
