New Year's

It's Training Week for Student Life which means that our summer has officially started. Roger has been at Shocco Springs with the teams since Sunday. The kids and I drove out yesterday to see him and hang out a little. It's a busy time with days full of meetings, but it was good to see him and feel the excitement building as all the teams prepare for another camp season.
It was Murray's first road trip to camp - don't think it was very different for her than every other place we go. But it was a marker for me. Most people see January or even August (if you're in school world) as the beginning of the year. But for me, its' May. Our year runs May to May - really, Training Week to Training Week. It was fun to see the kids play on the playground yesterday and immediately do the very things they couldn't do last year - would not do them. Sterling confidently slid down the fireman's pole, Landry climbed up the outside ladder, and Kinsley went straight to the tallest slide and went quickly down. All of their own - no parents coaching them. They just are older now, bigger, stronger. The things they were afraid of last year are now their most confident things to try. Goodness, i might need to think about that statement a little more for myself.
I think it was Wednesday of Training Week last year that Sterling first randomly threw up. I could not for the life of me figure out what was going on. So crazy that he just was playing cars on the concrete floor in the worship center at Shocco and then blah. I was hoping it wasn't a stomach virus. :) As the summer progressed Sterling continue to randomly be sick. We thought it was acid reflux. Yet my heart kept saying that something was wrong with my child. It's weird that this week - and not October - would be so strong on me, but i think it's because it's the origin. Our life changed at Training Week 2009 when Sterling threw up on the floor - a sign we now know was the effects of a seizure. We had no idea what was in store for us.
Sterling graduates from 4K at Riverchase UMC today. It will be emotional for me - just the very fact that he is here, looking great, singing loud and enjoying his last day of school. It hit me driving the kids to school today that this was their last day to ride to school together. Wow. Changes. Exciting. Emotional.
We're heading out to the annual SL picnic this afternoon - I don't even know how many years they've been doing this but a long time. It's kind of my New Year's meal! So I'm looking forward to being with my son as he says goodbye to a wonderful place today, and then heading out with my family later to picnic by the lake and worship God together just like we did last year... And choosing to believe that whatever God has for us in 2010 will bring Him glory and allow His character to be more real to us.
Happy New Year!