Happy New Year...

School year that is!

Today we started our first day of school here in Borger Tx...talk about change, adjustments, and nerves! All 6 of us experienced all of the above and more...

Joel - Today Joel began two new courses through his on-line college Liberty University. He also had to speak to the parents of Kindergarteners at the Wee School at our church. This is a whole new realm of ministry for Joel but he did amazing! We are so excited to see the new year of Wee School begin!

Hannah - HIGH SCHOOL!!! Can you believe it? That sweet little girl who walked around saying "NO!" as a 2 yr old is now a Freshman at Borger High School. We came from a town that had approximately 400 in their entire High School - Borger has approximately 800 in the High School! YIKES. However, meeting the challenge head on - Hannah bravely entered the doors of the two story maze they call the High School. She said her day was great, she embarassed herself but in her words, "that's just like any freshman would do." She is taking mostly Pre-Ap courses and is very excited about the challenge of it!

Malachi - BIG 7th Grader! Again - we came from a smaller Jr. High with only 3 main hallways to a bigger Middle School with several LONG hallways and classes spread from one side to the other! He also took the challenge head on with his normal carefree attitude! He is most excited about his Exploring Technology class in which they will be making ROBOTS! Ha ha - Jr. High has progressed since I was there!

Kestra - 6th Grade JUNIOR HIGH! What? I blinked and my sweet little diva princess is starting her first year as a Middle School student! Talk about being overwhelmed....she has never been in a school where you change classes and then jumped to the middle school! She was relieved to see a friend from church right away at school this morning. She said that she was tardy to a few classes but enjoyed her classes. She is most excited about her Fine Arts class - they will be studying music and history of various time periods. In her words, "Mom, I just know it will be fun, the teacher is AWESOME!"

Tyler - 4th GRADE! Tyler is at Crockett Elementary here in Borger. His teacher seems really nice. They are still working on his Special Ed schedule and all that but he was excited none the less. He is looking forward to going to the Science Lab tomorrow and seeing the hampster. When I asked him what his favorite part of the day was he said "Recess!" Go Figure!!!

Ronnie - First day of WALKING! Borger has a park with a wonderful walking trail around it so I have set the goal to go walking right after taking kids to school. Today I walked 2 miles and had some amazing prayer time with my Jesus! After that, it was home to get some much needed cleaning and laundry finished and no first day of school is complete without MOMMY LUNCH! I was able to meet with one of my new friends here for lunch at the Coffee Ranch which is amazing by the way (and owned by the other Arringtons in town!) She has one in Kindergarten and one in 7th Grade so she was truly enjoying her freedom today! Ha ha!

There you have it - the first day of a New Year! We are all very excited to get into the school routine and all. I look forward to updating you all as the year progresses!!!