Why so sad?!

I'm weepy this morning--it's back to school day.....but NOT FOR US....and yet, I'm still weepy!! Why is this?! I think it just signals a passing for all of us as parents. And though my Ella won't actually step inside a middle school today, I am well aware that if we weren't homeschooling, she WOULD be having her first day of middle school. Homeschooling doesn't mean she's not still growing up...it just means that I get to watch her do it! Maybe I'm nervous--will she feel today as a "void"--a right of passage that she's not getting to experience....or a blessing.....that she's NOT having to experience it?! I'm up early this morning to bathe this day in prayer, so I'm just giving this to God...."do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself!"

Morgan was baptized yesterday!! What an exciting day!! We kept our tradition and had a big party afterwards to celebrate--I cooked for 23 people--wow! Rice for 23 is VERY difficult...AND, apparently, continuing to add liquid to reduce stickiness really only INCREASES stickiness! Oh well, we all ate.... a lot....so it must've been okay! Morgan chose the menu since it was her special day: chicken and rice, black-eyed peas, salad, fruit, bread, chocolate chip pound cake, (and a sheet cake to celebrate Zach's college graduation!) And to make it even more special, we had the Lord's Supper last night at church--she got to take her first Lord's Supper on the same day she was baptized!!

beautiful: the baptism of a child
good: a house full of family and friends to celebrate with