First Day of Preschool & Our Move

I know I am way behind on blogging, so I thought I would catch up with the first picture in our camera. We like having our pictures organized on this blog, since we all enjoy going back to look at them from time to time. So without further ado...

Here are the sweet pictures from Charlie's first day at Wake Forest Baptist Church Preschool!

It was a rainy first day of school!

Sweet brothers! 

Charlie's red bag was given to him by the preschool; they prefer for all the kids to have matching bags that fit in the cubbies. We appreciated that too, since we didn't have to buy a bookbag!

When we dropped him off, Henry got to play a few minutes too!

Mrs. Betty Jenkins on the left, Mrs. Laura in the back.

A month or so after school started Mrs. Laura got a lead teacher position in another class and was moved across the hall. Mrs. Bethany Diaz joined their class as the assistant at that point. Charlie loved all three of the teachers he had! His schedule was M-Th. 

Last pic of my son before I walked down the hall. What a sweet, grown-up boy! I'm a proud mama!

After I dropped Charlie off I went back to this apartment to clean and get one last load of odds and ends.

We lived in Raleigh for the term of one lease, from July/August 2015 to the end of August 2016. 

I was not able to take the required number of hours to stay in seminary housing, so we headed for north Raleigh. We loved that this apartment complex was on Lake Lynn, and we enjoyed walking, jogging, bike riding, and wagon riding around the lake during the time that we were there. Jimmy had a shorter commute to work, which he liked, but I ended up driving back to WF (with the boys in tow) for at least four days every week. I had thought I could transfer to the Raleigh Sylvan, but that was not the case. Driving back and forth with the boys was exhausting and disrupted our evening schedule when they would fall asleep in the car. When it came time to renew our lease, we decided it would be best to move back to WF. At this point the seminary was offering great moving deals to students taking at least one class since the numbers in housing had dropped (due to online classes, hybrids, etc.). We enjoyed our foray into Raleigh (this city has so much to offer) but felt like we were truly at home when we came back to WF.

Some of the blessings we enjoyed most in our Raleigh year:

The boys' weekly LAMBS classes at Providence & my Bible study

Going to Finley YMCA, both to exercise in the gym and swim at the pool

Learning the Raleigh area better and enjoying new restaurants, malls, etc.

The Raleigh Parks and Rec system! (We really enjoyed Grey Stone Indoor Park, Baileywick, Sertoma, Lake Lynn, Shelley Lake, and Pullen Park. One of the best parts of Raleigh is the parks system!!!)

Most of all: Our involvement with Oaks Church Raleigh and the people we met as a result!