Kindergarten Bound

Oh the stress of sending our children to Kindergarten. As parents, many of us struggle with the best option for our children as they embark on their education journey. Do we have them partake in full day, half day, private Christian school, charter school, public school, which school district, do we have them take the bus, walk to school, or carpool, etc? It's all so overwhelming!! Bottom line, we all do what's best for each of our families.

We were pleasantly surprised to find out this week that LTD won the lottery for being accepted into a small charter school in Prior Lake known as Aspen Academy. Since a private Christian education is out of our budget, Aspen was our second choice since it focuses on the CORE cirriculum and features small class sizes and your choice of AM, PM or full day. We chose PM half day which is perfect for us since we still have the mornings to do things together or just sleep in and enjoy some quality morning time together. Dave and I figure they have the next 12 years to go to school full time; we want to keep them with us as much as possible for just one more year. Aspen appears to be a good transition from what they have learned at St. Michael's Preschool this year as well as what they have learned at Camp Clark Academy the last year and a half. Big bonus, the school requires school uniforms - yeah!!! The less we have to deal with any fashion drama, the better.

Sob sob sob..........the 3 amigos are growing up before our eyes. Kindergarten in the fall already; it seems like just yesterday they were toddling around tearing up the house, squelching loudly and dancing to blaring polka music with the biggest smiles on their faces. I recently ran across this photo of the day they graduated from Camp Clark Academy and proudly wore their graduation hats :)

The 3 Amigos - Graduation Day from Camp Clark Academy

Look out Aspen Academy...............here we come!!!!!