The Last of the Snow

This has all melted by now, but a week and a half ago I took the girls up to RVR to have their first bike rides of the season. They did pretty well, although Amelia kept needing to be pushed up inclines and Evelyn's one training wheel kept slipping out of place and she fell about four times. Tough kid--she still wants to ride her bike.

Don't even ask about the school thing. I have had a lot of conversations with God about it, usually shedding tears when I think about the WONDERFUL open houses I attended at both City Neighbors Charter Schools--only to have her 25th on the waiting list at one and 58th on the waiting list on the other. There weren't even 20 spots open in these kindergartens and hundreds of applicants.

She's 60th on the waiting list at the Green School. She actually got into the Spanish Immersion Kindergarten, and even though we LOVE the idea of her doing all her schooling K-8 in Spanish, we visited the school twice and there were so many red flags--quite discouraging. I kept thinking it would get better, but we just can't bring ourselves to send her there. I'm too tired to type out all the reasons.

The ONE good thing about the last visit to the Spanish Immersion school, though, was that I met a woman who told me about another charter school that will be brand new in the fall. It's not as close as any of these others, but still not too bad, and because it is brand new it doesn't have as many applicants. I went right home and looked it up and called, got an application and ran it over. It sounded like the Kindergarten was full but the waiting list was short...haven't heard for sure yet. That particular school's focus is health, and the kids will get 75 minutes of movement, PE, or dance every day, and will study nutrition as part of their curriculum. That certainly sounds good so far. There's an open house for that one on Tuesday, so you'll know where we'll be. (I'll miss another night of AWANA...between my sick kids and these open houses, I've been a really bad AWANA leader this year!)

Then there's Calvary Lutheran School. What a sweet, tender place. I'll have to upload a few pictures from the Grandparents' Day last week. All four grandparents came, and the girls felt really special. The Grandparents felt special, too, and I heard it was a great time. My father-in-law took lots of pictures, and I'll have to upload some of them.

Through all of this I've been really challenged to trust God. Not since having two miscarriages and wondering if we'd ever have kids at all have I had these knotted-up feeling in my gut that make me wonder what God's got in mind and why it's NOT the same thing that I've got in MY mind. It's been pretty humbling to realize that for most of my life God has done a lot of what I've expected or asked Him to do, and I've not learned to really trust Him when the future is truly uncertain. I know it's only Kindergarten, but it's my child--it's going to be a HUGE part of her world next year, and a huge part of her daily influence. Whew.