Show A Little Kindness: First day of school

Saturday, September 4, 2010

First day of school

Kelsi's first day of Westlake as a 9th grader. She leaves for the bus at 7:07. She's the first one up in our house!

Logan's first day at Vista Heights as an 8th grader. He leaves for the bus at 7:45.

Logan let me take a picture of his friends on the first day it's Kaden, Dominiq, Logan and BT. (yes Dominiq has a cast on one arm and the other in a sling!)

" The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache. "

" I don't want to drive up the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails.

I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp.

I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children.

I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden.

I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder.

I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived"
~Marjorie Pay Hinckley