This week has been very eventful. Addison started preschool on Monday and I started work on Monday! The first 2 days were an adjustment for her, but by Wednesday she was talking about her new friends (Sophie and Amelie) all the time and taking a nap! I didn't think the nap thing would ever happen. I've kinda spoiled her during naptime, but she quickly adjusted and napped the whole naptime at schoool. Since I work at her school I am able to watch her in class on the monitors and see her walking down the hall with her class. It's so cute to see her walking in line with her hands behind her back! Her teachers keep her very busy with activities, this week she did art projects, a music lesson, and madarin chinese! The Montessori methods seem to agree with Addison, she's able to choose the centers that interest her, so she doesn't get bored. On Thursday, she bawled when I picked her up because she didn't want to go home! I'm so thankful that she likes going to school, I was so worried that she would hate it and I would have to quit my job! Luckily, I like my job too and the people I work with seem great. Being at work by 7:00 am will be an adjustment though, but we will survive!
Rest in Peace, Ben, Elizabeth, Fischer and Baby Hayes
On a much sadder note. A friend and her 3 boys were killed in a head-on collision Monday morning.
It's so terribly tragic, even now it doesn't seem real. Elizabeth grew up with us in Lexington, she's a friend's younger sister and married a guy from Ryan's class. They had two adorable boys, Fischer and Ben, and she was 5 months pregnant with Hayes. Elizabeth and Sam both come from good Christian families, my heart just breaks for them. It's hard to believe that just three hours before she died she was posting pictures on facebook. So when you say your prayers...please add Sam, who lost his wife and three sons. Julie and Jeff who lost their daughter and grandsons, Sam and Rhonda who lost their daughter-in-law and grandsons, Jennifer who lost her sister and nephews, Lauren who lost her sister and nephews, little Ava who lost her aunt and her cousins, and Dan who lost his sister-in-law and nephews. Not to mention the hundreds of extended family and friends who need your prayers. I am so inspired by this family. Even in the darkest of hours they have been so faithful and are using the lives of their loved ones to teach grace and mercy. Elizabeth often spoke about this book Grace Based Parenting...she was an excellent mother...so her family gave out this book at the service. In hopes that more mothers would raise their children to be full of God's grace. All things happen for a reason, perhaps that is one of the lessons that God wanted to teach through this terrible tragedy.
