Bye Summer.....

As I sit here this morning and enjoy my HOT cup of coffee and I can hear cartoons playing in the back ground, I cannot help but think about how TIME HAS FLOWN BYE. Next week our lives change as the hustle and bustle of three little ones start school. I have enjoyed this summer and my time with them! (don't get me wrong...there were days I went crazy) I loved going to the swimming pool, making road trips to Lubbock to see cousins, taking the boys to summer mothers-day-out so I could have that special 'girl' time with Kynedy, coffee with my dear friends, going to the duck pond, sitting out on the front lawn until dark visiting with our dear friends/neighbors and watching the kids play, AND making it through tornado season! (I am petrified of stroms)
Kynedy will be in school ALL day...it seems like such a long time for a little girl, but after spending time with all the family in Colorado; I realized she is not so little. She is into all the BIG girl things. Which brings me to this story.
Going to Target to get school supplies looked like this:

All 5 of the HAPPY Rhoads family walks in and grabs a cart. Mom SO excited b/c as a kid I loved going and picking out my supplies; making sure I got all the CUTEST pencils, folders, etc. Kynedy is mummbling about how she would rather be at home playing with her friends, Nolan is, of course hyper and off the wall ( i vowed MY kids would never act like that in a store) and Lane, well he is whining because he ONLY wants mom to hold him.
We finally make it to the school supply section, with LOTS of other people. Will is playing some game with the boys (helping????...but mostly getting them more hyper) while I am reasponsibly going through the 'check list' and wondering why I didn't just go by myself. Kynedy is gazing at all the HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL and CAMP ROCK choices of backpacks and lunchboxes! Finally I get most of the supplies (i have to make two other trip to other places to get everything.uggg) Kynedy picks out her backpack..... and a new adventure for our family began! Daddy had a BIT of an opinion about her choices.....

Kynedy: "I like this one!!!!"
Dad: "Ummm...that has boys ALL over it. No kynedy choose a different one"
Kynedy: "no, I want this one!!!! I LOOOOVE High school Musical"
Dad: "I am sorry Kynedy but you are six years old and do not need to be carrying around bags with boys"
.........and so you get the point. Dad could not get past why SHE wanted it, he only saw the boys. She really didn't care about the boys but wanted it because it was her favorite movie! I began to realize as I sat back and enjoyed the fact that the TWO of them were not seeing eye-to-eye (b/c it is usually me & kynedy) that this is what we have to look forward to for the next 20 yrs!!!!!

I always heard ' the boys are hard when they are small but SO much easier as they get bigger! Those girls will be tougher as they get older" I just couldn't believe that when people would tell me that. My boys seem to drain the energy out of me!!! and our sweet Kynedy, always a pleaser and obedient. But at that moment I realized what all those wise souls were telling us.
The boys could care less about what they wear, what they carry, what cute folders and pencils they have. Just HAVE FUN is there philosophy.

All of this to say that time does fly bye! I cannot believe that I will only have 1 child every morning and even 0 on two mornings! It seems not so long ago that it was just Kynedy. I look forward to adapting again to the school year schedule and making sure that all the kids are on time, dressed nice, have lunches, homework is done and they are delivered to their schools (they are ALL at DIFFERENT ones). That we fit in some sort of after school activity, while still getting a hot meal on the table and cherishing that family -table -time and reasonable bed times.