Kiddos School Day 1

The boys’ first day of school was today.  Three hundred elementary school kids from across the country and around the world converged in the gym, which doubles as the sanctuary of Bethel Church, to listen to the state of the student body address from Mr. Mayor followed by his commissioning prayer – pretty awesome.   I chatted with parents who had all recently moved to Redding to attend the school of ministry that I will going to and in turn had enrolled their kids at the Christian school as well—a guy from Florida, a gal from Taiwan, another from England and others from everywhere else. Richly diverse that’s for sure.  I stood beside Hudson as the boys lined up beside the girls before entering their classroom.  "Okay boys, we'll let the girls enter the classroom first because they are true gentlemen," Ms. Rust instructed -- right on teach, right on!

We bumped into our English friends from the pool party, James and Fiona, and invited them over for a cup of coffee (we did offer tea).  They are in a bit of a crunch looking for a car while they’re here in the states for the next couple of years and lucky for them Mica is a car shopping champion.  Mica and Fiona sat at the computer busy with craigslist and autotrader while I ceased the opportunity to show James my pistol.  He was pretty impressed and I promised to take him out shooting in the near future.   I guess in England you have to go to some kind of club and rent guns to shoot there.  I told him that was lame and that back home you just shoot in your back yard.  Here in the city though you just can’t go shooting, but you can throw knives!  Lucky for James I brought my throwing knives and a freshly painted cross-section of a Doug Fir tree for just an occasion.  I had him throwing knives like James Bond in no time.  I alluded one of his first attempts as “weak throw” in a joking way and he responded, “I cannot believe you just called me a Nancy” – classic.

Today was the first day of Lily’s new found liberation from the boys.  Don’t get me wrong, she loves her boys and they treat her good, but today was different in that she was home hanging out with mom and dad all by herself while the boys were at school.  She watched a “Kitty-meow-meow” cartoon for a bit when we got home cause that’s what she wanted to do.

We picked the boys up from school, came home, played in the pool and finished the day with dinner at In-and-Out Burger.  I’m not trying to make it a habit, but man those burgers are good!