Already.
Our summer disappeared while we invested copious amounts of time & energy into the missions trip. We kept saying "we'll do that after the missions trip". Well... when we got home from Canada, we had only one month of summer left and a long list of things to do. 2 of those weeks slipped away while we tried to catch up on sleep and neglected household chores. Amazingly enough, we did get most of the list crossed off. And now here we are -ready or not.
These young ladies have been doing first days together since Kindergarten and have 1 more to go! Hopefully this will be A's last full year as a student and she will finish by Christmas her senior year.
I used to dread the start of the school year. I hated packing lunches. I hated having to get out of bed at a certain time every morning. (And getting to bed at a decent hour evenings.) As good as structure is for us, I don't much care for it at 7a.m.! I hated driving in bad weather to shuttle them to & from school. And supervising homework.
But I don't dread the school schedule like I used to. We only have 1 on the school schedule anymore. She gets herself up in the morning and gets ready on her own. She packs her own lunch. She does her homework with minimal input. She takes responsibility to get to bed on time. And in just a few short weeks, she will even drive herself to & from. Yay! The perks of having older children. The only thing left to adjust to is not having her help around the house during the day.
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And by the time daughters are a really good help around the house, they run off and get married. Been there, done that!
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