First Day

Hello my friends.

Today I have a few thoughts I would like to share.

It is the first day of school for most of us here in Utah.

We started today. . .I can't even begin to count the

number of "first day of school" I have gone through.

Too many to count.  

This is the "first day" of my last year in high school.

With my younger siblings.

Yes, I am the person who cried.  

My own first day and my children's first day.

I am still having first days of school.

And No, I don't cry, but oh the anxiety is high!

Just how I am wired.

Today my son posted this picture of me and him.

He is an administrator in the school district in which I work.

His caption was how many first days I have had with school

children, and I am still having first days with them.

I have to say when I saw him coming down the

hallway my heart fluttered

I was happy to see him!

Just checking on his Momma.

I have shed teas each new year with my own children.  

They were fine going to school but Mom shed tears.

My heart broke in two when I sent my first born to school

and then when I sent him to college, it about killed me.  

Oh, but sending him to a foreign country for

a mission for 

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 

Just about did me in.

But one thing I have found in all the tears of the first day

Is am thankful for first days. . . I am thankful for DAYs 

with my loved ones.

And they always, come home to Momma!

I hope your first days are wonderful. . .