#Life

     The other day, I was looking at my calender for various reasons. And I realized that we are more than halfway through February already, so I decided to count how many weeks of preschool we have left.

     Eight. The answer is eight. Only eight weeks of preschool left, and one of those weeks is halfway done already.

     That is craziness! How is it that the number of weeks of preschool that remain is in the single digits?! 

     It really feels like my time on staff with YWAM Madison just started. I feel like it was just a month or two ago that I was in Sault Ste Marie, not allowed to cross over the border (and oh how that makes me smile, now that it is in the past! Makes for a good story!). I feel like it was a couple days ago that the Fall DTS arrived at the TC, and now they are literally days away from coming back from outreach! It feels like it was just yesterday that I got back from Christmas vacation, yet that was almost two months ago now.

     I knew that my time here was short, that I would be back in Canada before I knew it. But time is going by so fast! When you are standing at the beginning, it the end seems so far away, even if you know that time will go by fast. When you are standing this close to the end, looking back, you realize that you should no longer blink, because when you do, months go by.

     Last Wednesday, Micah and his family got back from their three weeks on the West coast. I picked them up in Milwaukee, and the very first thing Micah said to me when he saw me was "We have school tomorrow!"

     He's so cute :) They all are.

     It is good to be back in the groove again. Between "snow" storms and sickness, preschool was very small for a week and a half. I felt like we basically had a break, because I only had up to three kids at a time. Now everyone is back in good health and at preschool, and it is oh so good to have them all back again! It is loud and crazy and so much fun!

     One child wasn't there yesterday (but I still had seven children because the sister of one of my kids joined us. She often does, so much so that her name is on the wall with everyone else's. She is a year older than my oldest kids, and she absolutely loves coming to our preschool). His mom emailed me last night and asked what Bible story we read, saying that he wanted to know so that they could read it at home today.

     Like I said, they are so cute! :)

     Blessings,

          Katie

We don't have sleds, and have to rely on having parents bring them for the day. On the days when we have no sleds, the hill -which was basically ice before our last snow- the kids slide down on their bellies like penguins. They LOVE it. Its so cute!

During circle on day, we talked about how we need to be like Jesus. But in order to do that, we need to know what Jesus is like. These were some of the kid's responses to that question.

It snowed one night, with beautiful big fluffy flakes that added up quickly. So Kenzie and I went out, borrowed a couple sleds, and played in the snow for awhile. So much fun!

I love carrots. I eat them like, every day. So Kenzie sent me this "Valentine". She knows me too well!

This is Kenzie again. We spend a lot of time together, living in the same house, being basically roommates. We have both been super tired lately. So tired that she apparently couldn't make it down the stairs to her bedroom :P

We have the most random conversations, so we have taken to writing down each other's quotes to share with the rest of the world. Because everyone should have the pleasure of hearing some of our conversations!

#lifewithkenzie