First Day of School For My Kiddos

Today  I am going to take a slight detour from sharing about my vacation since it is the first day of school for my kids.  Both of them had a hard time falling asleep last night probably because they were so excited about going back to school.  Thankfully they were able to wake up this morning without too much of a fuss.  :) Before leaving for school we gave them their beginning of the year gifts. (Sorry they were so excited about receiving their gifts that they opened them before I was able to take a picture of them.)

These are Winks- the newest kind of faires on the market.  Sorry my daughter took their wings off.

I was planning to make a beginning of the school year card for both of my kids, but only made my daughter's so far because I am still waiting for some thing that I ordered to finish my son's.  I will post a picture of his as soon as I am done.  (This by the way is the first time that I made a card for them for the beginning of the school year.  We usually just purchase a card for them and write a special message.)  I made her this card using her favorite colors (which are also mine) and with a fairy on it since she loves fairies.

My hubby usually drops them off at school, but as a tradition we take them to school together on the first day.  I prayed with them on the way to school asking for God's blessings upon them this school year and to help them to not only have a good time with their friends, but learning.  Here they are on the way to their classrooms with their new backpacks

outfits, and shoes. 

They picked out their new items all by themselves. We walked my son to class and took a family picture.  I stayed with him until he walked with his class into their classroom.  I of course was a bit emotional watching my little boy start on the next card in his schooling.  My hubby walked my daughter to her class. When my hubby dropped me off at home, we felt odd coming into such a quiet house.