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Comments: Beginning Wednesday, October 21 and Thursday, October 22 we will be making a small adjustment in our dismissal by switching doors. Please wait outside the first door where I will have a dismissal sign posted. I will call your child based on the order you are standing straight down the long hallway. Once you have reclaimed your child exit via the second door and then retrieve coats etc.
Please inform all friends and family who pick up. Thank you for your patience.
I love May! Spring is my favorite time of the year! Who can appreciate the warm weather and sunshine more than people who have been through a long, cold winter? It brightens my spirits and reminds me how awesome God is and wonderful His creation.
We have been busy all week making Mother’s Day surprises, watching our butterflies, going to chapel with Pastor, learning our numbers and our Bible story about Timothy in 2 Timothy 1:5 & 3:14-15:
I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also…But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
What a great influence mothers (and fathers too) have on their children. Sometimes it is overwhelming to think that everything we say and do can have a profound, life long or even eternal affect on them. How fortunate, we, who know Christ can rest in the assurance that Jesus loves our little ones even more than we ever could. We won’t always know the answers to all the crisis that will come up in our children’s lives but we know the One who does. My prayer for you is that you will always go to the One who created your child for the answers in caring for them. May you, just as Eunice and Lois, teach your children the truth of God as he shares Himself to us in the Bible.
This Mother’s Day I would like to share with you books that have taught, convicted and changed me to be a better mom.
The Holy Bible
The Power of a Praying Parent by Stormie Omartian
Dare to Discipline by James Dobson
How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
Happy Mother’s Day! May God bless you and your family.
It was great getting back into the classroom, rested and rejuvenated after having the week off. It reminds me of how important it is to take time off to rest, something I have a hard time doing on a regular basis. I was able to fly to my sister’s in Baltimore for a long weekend and enjoy a retreat at her church. I took advantage of Ding, which offers special airline prices from Southwest Airlines. It cost me just $99. round trip and because they offer less popular flights I usually get a whole row of seats to myself. My flight came in Monday morning at 8:10 and I was just able make it to school by 8:30 thanks to Kathy Gibson’s brother, Mark.
I hope you all had a chance to spend some time with your family during the week off from school. How fast they grow and change. How recent it seems when my own children were in their preschool years, now 16 and 18. What wonderful memories we made. I will always treasure them. Thankfully, even those difficult times that were there too, I can see God used to grow us and to help us rely on His power rather than our own. Parenting: what an awesome privilege and tremendous responsibility! Thank goodness we don’t have to do it alone as God desires to teach us, give us wisdom and be our ever present support. All we need to do is ask. I’ve learned what a better job God does in molding our children than we could ever do.
