We were traveling across the ocean on June 5, to Korea. We sat on the plane and enjoyed a few moments of quiet. We were taking a small break from our fast pace life trying to prepare for our upcoming week abroad. When Todd says..."You know our summer is over!" Boy was he right. Our summer has flown bye. Between Korea, VBS, PCB camp, mission trip to Asheville, and trying to move we have hardly had time to unpack our suitcase. It has been incrediable and amazing but it doesn't seem possible that it is the first day of school. Normally we are on the ball at the beginning of the school year and we slack off a bit by late spring. I don't know why but I guess it is because of the craziness of our life style. This new school year I believe we have started off feeling slugish. We did'nt get our school supplies until yesterday. We had these grand plans of a perfect night at home, good home cooked meal, baths, haircuts, and early to bed. But a Dahl got thrown in our plans...yes, you heard it. Dahl and Chris (2 of our students) stopped by for a visit. We enjoyed our visit but it put our perfect timing off. We managed to salvage the night, we got the kids to bed at 9:00, which is normal not early. We laid out the kids clothes but we didn't pack their lunches or back backs. Do you know how long that takes if you don't do it the night before? We woke up and raced around to get everyone dressed. We frantically packed their backpacks with the items from their forever long school supply list. We snapped a quick photo for the scrapbook and made it to school with 5 minutes to spare. That is not how we would wish for the first day of school. I would love for a calm easy morning but I feel like we are still in our spring slack off mode. I guess our bodies have not felt a summer break. I hope we can get our act together because I would hate to see what next spring will look like if we slack off from here. Oh where did our summer break go?? Speaking of summer break, when I was a child the Olympics was a summer event. I mean, I remember watching it on my summer break. But my kids are having to go to bed because they have school tomorrow. The Halliburton's have been all about the Olympics. We watch it all. We have been pulling for our American team however we smile when the Koreans do well. We left a small part of our hearts in Korea. We have new friends in our Calvary family. We are going to post some pitures of our first day of school and pictures of our kids dressed in the shirts Lee and Sue (our Korea homestay family) bought for them. The girls are wearing a hairbow from Yeon Hee.
Tonight has been a little more productive. Maybe we realy realize summer is over and school has started. Lunches are packed, backpacks ready, clothes laid out, good supper and normal bedtime. The USA even won the Gold in the mens swimming relay. If only our USA ladies could of held on to the floor exercise. Silver is good too but I like the gold. By the way, how old are the girls on the China gymnastic team. They are still missing their baby teeth. Well anyway, we are looking for an easier second morning of school. Because summer is over and school has started whether we are ready or not.