School starts this week-

Registration is tonight, but we won't be there. After much prayer and listening to many (Super Strong) opinions on the matter, we've decided to hold Halle out until next year.

She is ready. The girl has been reading those little First Reader books (slowly and with a little help) and she would really really love it, but we're trying to look at the big picture. She'll either be one of the youngest in her grade or one of the oldest. She'll either drive first or last (which means- riding with scary teenager friends.)

We've decided to give her this little jump start. Maybe she won't waste a year in college trying to figure out what she wants to be. (Maybe she will.) Maybe she'll make good decisions in High School. (Maybe she won't.)

Either way- sending her or not- there are positives and negatives. We believe that this is the right decision for Halle.So for now, we'll keep doing our PreSchool thing at home. We still haven't found a good option (for us) in our area, but we'll get Halle (and Cate too) involved in every social thing we can- soccer, gymnastics, Awanas, story time, etc.And I'll be thankful for one more year. One more year to travel whenever we want, for however long we want. One more year to go to every late game JD coaches. One more year for Cate to have her "bestest best friend" with her.

And we'll try not to second-guess ourselves too much.