the gift of vbs

this week all four (repeat "all four") kids went to a morning vbs where i dropped them off and came back three, glorious, hours later. i was a little nervous about manning actually being willing to stay since he wouldn't leave me during our vbs last week and was just three days into potty training, but he did great! the first day he went to his class very willingly with a volunteer.

the hosting church is where madelyn's friend, sarah (who came to ours last week) attends and the lady running the vbs week is an acquaintance of mine, so i felt good about leaving the kids. it was such a gift to have some mornings to myself. i wasn't able to quite do everything i would have liked because we had some work crews drywalling two bedrooms in our basement and i had to be home most of the time. but it was still glorious.

the kids had a wonderful time too. they had a science theme - which madelyn loved - to go along with the creation story. each child was given a t-shirt and a backpack and a cd of the music for each family at no cost to us which was an unexpected bonus. madelyn was so into the science theme, that she wore her safety glasses for the last day (we had to miss friday).

this has given me a little taste at how my life will be once the school year begins. i am excited. love.