Time is flying by too quickly....

COMING SOON - REGISTRATION 2014-15

We are fast approaching our Jackson Middle School registration process and wanted to inform you of some important dates coming in January.  We ask our students to make some very important decisions at this time, and their choices guide our staffing and course offerings at Jackson and are often difficult to change at a later date.  Thank you for your support in this process.  Visit our Jackson webpage for more information and resources as they become available.

Incoming 6th Grade (Current 5th Grade):

JMS registration presentations at elementary schools – January 9 and 10

Instrument trial opportunities at JMS – January 9, 10, and 11

Registration sheets due to elementary teacher – January 15

6th to 7th, and 7th to 8th Grade Registration:

Registration presentations delivered in advisory – January 6 and 7

Registration sheets due – January 10

CPHS Registration for 8th to 9th Grade:

CPHS registration presentations in math classes – January 24

CPHS Parent Information Night – January 28

Registration sheets due – January 31

This email sent from my daughter's school made me bawl today.  Abbe will be going to High School, and Luke to Middle School.  My babies, growing up so fast.  I wish I could slow time down just a little.   

Darkness/Light

“There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” 
― C.G. Jung

The days are getting darker.  It is good to know that, brighter days WILL come.

~Tonja

Anxiety is such a strange thing.  It has been mostly gone from my life since I finished school.  Then today, poof.  Its back.  Why?  I really have no idea.  There is nothing different going on in my life than there was a month or two months ago.  So, why come back today?  I wish I understood it.  I hate these feelings.  I used to be able to will them away, but I can no longer do that.  *sigh*  Well, if you are reading this, could you just say a prayer for me that God will take away this anxiety?  Thanks.

~Tonja

Stress

All right.  I am just going to come right out and say it.  I am STRESSED OUT!  Like superdeduperdeBOOPerde stressed out!!!!  AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

*pout*

I don't like it.

Today

“And, at such a time, for a few of us there will always be a tugging at the heart—knowing a precious moment had gone and we not there. We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours for ever—the way things looked, that church alone in the fields, a bed on belfry floor, a remembered voice, a loved face. They’ve gone and you can only wait for the pain to pass. ” 
― J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country

My baby is coming!

I don't know why, but whenever I think of my grandson, Finn, I call him "my baby".  Its weird how things like that happen.  I often call Luke "Buppy".  What does that even mean?  But my mouth just says it.  It is the same with calling Finn my baby.  It just happens.  My heart is jumping with joy!  My grandson will KNOW me.  I will KNOW him!  We will have a real RELATIONSHIP!  I am thankful that Corry is willing to make this huge change for Emma and Finn.  I am praying every day that God will bless his socks off here. :)

Tonja

The lovely Locke's who will soon be with me!!!

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In the same way, any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple. (Luke 14:33)

Pastor spoke about this on Sunday, and I can't stop pondering it.  What does it mean to give up everything?