The end of summer is looming as we prepare to ring in the next new season.

All of us at Yellowstone in front of Old Faithful.  What a super fun summer trip!

We have been off from school for a few months now.  The girls and I needed the break, and we have used this break to the fullest doing all kinds of really fun things.  However now, we are all getting a little tired.  A little cranky, a little bossy.  Ok, let's be serious.  A LOT bossy!  

It's time for us all to get back into school. 

Slowly, slowly the wheels have started to turn in my sun exposed, play overloaded, television warped brain.  I can almost here the squeak of the rusty wheel:-)

So, I am dusting off book shelves and books too for that matter.  We have hardly opened a one this whole summer *gasp*

I am looking up paint colors on Home Depot's website to put a fresh coat of paint in the school room.

I am dreaming about workboxes and white boards and timelines.

I am planning first day of school activities and thinking up new ways to make it extra special for my Littles this year.

I am preparing to send big sister off to high school in a few weeks with volleyball tryouts around the corner, extra practices and registration days looming!

Soccer, tumbling, creative dance and swim...Oh  my!

And we haven't even started school yet.

Truly, truly, my favorite time of year is the end of September, early October.  I dream about those weeks when all this craziness is behind us and we are into the groove of school and activities, spending time in God's Word every day while we learn to walk with  Him. 

I love that season of hunkering down and settling in for the winter after playing hard outside and inside all summer.  Summer is fun.  Play is fun, but cozy autumn days by the fire with something yummy baking in the oven is just about the best thing ever.

So, eagerly I dream and I plan.  I organize and I clean.  I prepare for the coming year, praying over my children, my husband and all of our friends and family too.  I thank God for this season of preparation and pray that I will use it wisely and not squander the time with idle worry and stress.

I will trust in the Lord for all of  my needs and for those of my family.  And I know that, although I dream and plan and organize and clean, I do this so that I may walk a little more by faith, knowing the Lord has it all figured out and I will be prepared to follow wherever he leads.


In Him,

Kim