#LiveInYourReal: First Day of school

Oh I am such a nerd, in a good way. And it looks like I have cloned myself. She may look like her dad, but she is me. I love the first day of school. Love it. Love a fresh start, love putting things on my calandar, the real kind, not one on a phone, but good ole spiral with a pencil. I love new markers and new books. Samantha does too, big time. She told me last night that she was more excited then Christmas, not I even thought that was taking it a bit too far. I have not seen her stop smiling since yesterday around 3:00.
Bo, well lets just say he did not come unglued. He actually did quite well. He did not skip in, but there were smiles. He was so excited that there was a potty in his room. Very cool. He checked it out first thing and thought it was very cool that you flipped the clip to red when you were in there and back to green when you were done. The little things right. He was very happy and I had to make myself leave, rather then him begging me to stay. It is a good thing, right? No tears or anxious hearts this am. I did ask Baylen on the way out...do you want to go to school with Pepper and Bo or go home with mommy? He layed his head on my shoulder...go with mommy. Ok, all is good....breathe
So...we headed to storytime. It was the best yet. Something about being with your toddler jumping for joy at the sight of a familiar song and finding a little paper mouse....made me smile. As I was feeling somersaults going on in my belly. It felt good to watch what I remembers Samantha doing as Bo was in my belly. Love to do this again....love it.
Baylen and I had a super morning....perfect
Excited to see my little first borns get off that bus in a few short hours, until then while it is naptime I will see what all can get done...

Devotion today came at a perfect time...When I was at the grocery store this am I could not believe how the lady infront of my yelled at the checkout lady because she did not give her her senior discount. She snatched, really snatched her receipt out of her hand and was fuming! The poor girl told her she could go to the customer service to get it and she repeated on and on how sorry she was. She looked like she was about to cry! What happened to a little grace. This made me so sad. I was so sad that this lady was so angry, but a sad way to be.
Then my devotion today was about having grace! Of course it was, because God always puts before us examples of His word if we are paying attention! It was about not getting angry and giving everyone the benifit of the doubt. The thing is a lot of times we do not show grace to those closes to us. Why do we give the ones we love the hardest time? The devil is just waiting for us to get angry and stay that way. He thrives on that....I will try to always think about how we should give a little grace period for those that make us angry. Hard to do, but will try....

"Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

and do not give the devil an opportunity."

Ephesians 4:26-27

"Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt,

so that you may know how to answer everyone."

Colossians 4:6

"Be alert and of sober mind.

Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour."
1 Peter 5:8,