Celebrating!

The new school year has begun at the Wilson home! 

To celebrate the occasion, we started our day with Schueltueten or, as we call them, school cones.  You can read about them here.  They are not dunce caps as this picture seems to show.  This is a tradition from my German heritage that we have adopted as our own, swaying a bit from the tradition and doing it the Wilson way.  We plan to do this every year as a kick-off to our new year and fill them with any needed school supplies.  It didn't take long for our children to empty the contents of their cones and invert them onto their heads as "party hats".

After a great first day of school, we had some friends over for lunch to celebrate.

Just for fun, we ate a sandwich on a stick...

followed by a pudding treat that everyone helped make.

Then we put three flavors of pudding in an ice cream cone and added sprinkles.  Yummy! Yummy!

We are thankful that we can learn about God and His world in order to know Him better and worship Him with all our hearts, all our souls, and all our minds.  We are especially excited that we get to begin to read this year, and will one day be able to read God's word on our own.  And though we are not Harvard University, a quote from their original rule book is great to think about as we start this school year: "Everyone shall consider the main end of his life and studies to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life..." 

We are celebrating the opportunity we have to know God more in this coming year!