Jack's Preschool Open House ... And Big Changes

As if we don't have enough major changes going on in our little family's life right now, Jack is about to start {next week!} at a brand new preschool. I really wrestled and prayed over the decision to move him to a new preschool. Leaving our school of three years that we've absolutely loved was not an easy choice to make. But, I feel the Lord's blessing over this school, and it's much, much closer to our house. I've just had to make some decisions to make MY life easier lately, and this was one of them.

Jack's teachers seem absolutely precious! His little classroom looks so sweet, and we even signed up for Soccer Shots. Big boy stuff! I have no doubt he'll love his new school. Open house was a huge success this morning!

In case you can't tell from these two pictures below, Jack was super excited about wearing his new shoes to his new school. {And he was pretty excited to get McDonald's for lunch in celebration of a successful preschool open house!}

I am sooooooo taking my life one day at a time right now. Nathan starting kindergarten. Nathan riding the bus. Homework!? Jack starting at a new school. All new faces. New moms. And once again, I'm finding myself feeling like I'm starting all over in a brand new place! New baby two weeks away. Diapers and sleepless nights and breastfeeding after a four-year break from babies!

I think it is no wonder that the Lord has put this verse over and over in my path lately:

God was so blatant with this verse, that I just yesterday commissioned an artist to do this framed lettering to hang in my house. This verse is the story of the Ryans, and the story of what we're walking through right now. We're always walking blindly in life, aren't we? We aren't promised tomorrow, we aren't promised our jobs or any type of security. But we are promised that the Lord goes before us, and especially on these unfamiliar paths we've been traversing of late. And, to think, we'll be moving again in 1 year and 9 months! Thank Jesus that He never forsakes us, and that He goes before us turning our darkness into light and our rough places into smooth places.

Breathe, Emily, just breathe. I'm working on it. :)