Today feels like a rare day. It’s a day much like the other 160 school days of this term, yet it has a different dimension. Today marks the last day for the five school children to go off to school.

I savored the quiet days to be rejuvenated yet I’m also eager to having the children at home every day. There are projects we want to tackle as a family and find a routine that works for all seven of us under the same roof. The boys are at the age where they thrive on real things to do with real goals. It tends to be a challenge minus Daddy, but we’ll take a day at a time and trust God to meet us every hour of every day.