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Time With My Boy

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Last week my girls got to spend time in Iowa with my parents.  That put our family of 5 down to 3.  Lance and I haven't had nearly this much time alone with our first born since we became a family of 4.  On Saturday, we explored the arboretum.  After bird watching and baseball in these beautiful surroundings, we headed home for a burger and later stayed up past our bedtimes around a fire.  A very sweet day indeed.

An Ending

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For four years in a row, I have walked up to the 3rd floor of First Baptist Preschool with my children.  Both Fisher and Claire took a year of preschool and a year of Pre-Kindergarten there.  They each had a different and wonderful teacher for preschool, but for Pre-K they had Miss Cathy.  Miss Cathy is a perfect Pre-K teacher- warm and nuturing, but also with a little- "it's time to boot you out of the nest" kind of attitude.  Claire has been her student for 3 hours every weekday morning this year.  She loves Miss Cathy.  As she told me through sobs the other night, she "wants" Miss Cathy.  After she got done singing her end-of-the-year program songs, she ran to her Daddy's lap and proceeded to cry through the rest of the program.  She is her Mommy's little girl.  I have always been very aware of endings and what they symbolize; of all that is going to be left behind when they come.  I could tell that many emotions, thoughts and memories were surrou
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MAY DAY!!!