The FIXER TO FABULOUS family is ready for school to start.
“First day of school for the kids,” Dave Marrs captioned a photo of their five children, holding backpacks, lunch bags and water bottles. “It blows my mind how fast time goes. They are all the best parts of @jennymarrs and me. Love them so much.”
TV Insider reported that Jenny Marrs shared the photo on her Instagram story on Thursday, too, adding, “Ready or not. Here we go!” She also shared a snap of her oldest children, 16-year-old twins Nathan and Ben, driving themselves to school in their car. “They drove themselves today,” said Jenny. “I’m fully unprepared for how fast they’ve grown up.”
The family said goodbye to summer by enjoying the outdoors together on their large farm property.
She said, “None of the Marrs are ready to start a new school year just yet. We love (love, love) summer.”
They love the summer sun, late family dinners, last-minute adventures and time with friends. At the same time, they’re also excited about the new school year.
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Jenny said, “Sitting at the edge of the water alongside my kiddos, I felt hopeful and peaceful and sensed a prompting to pray one word over this next year for each of them: flourish. I pray they flourish and thrive and shine as brightly as the summer sun on a hot Arkansas day.”
On her Instagram story this week, she also shared a photo of four of the children at Andy’s Frozen Custard, eating “first day ice cream.” Everyone had smiling faces.
On Thursday, Jenny shared that it’s been an emotional week as her oldest boys were just babies a “blink” ago.
She’s praying for her children, too.
“I felt hopeful and peaceful and sensed a prompting to pray one word over this next year for each of them: flourish. I pray they flourish and thrive and shine as brightly as the summer sun on a hot Arkansas day,” she said.
Fortunately, Dave found a kitten stuck up in a tree on their property, so Jenny had a cute distraction from her feelings.
“I’ll take her to the vet this morning to see if she has a chip but, if not, she’ll stay. Because, even though he acts like he doesn’t love the chaos, Dave suggested the name Jill since our Jill would’ve loved finding a kitten on the farm. She would’ve taken her in like she did so many times before,” she said.
Jill was their neighbor, whom they’d known for seven years. She passed away nearly one year ago. The whole family mourned her death.
“I was texting her from Italy with photos from our trip because she loves to hear about our adventures, and we dreamt of going together someday. And, now, I’m having a very hard time grappling with the reality that her and Bob’s home stands empty, her cat is at my doorstep looking for food (of course, our home is now her home) and my dear, creative, joyful, fun, full of life, friend is gone,” Jenny wrote at the time.
In more posts on her Instagram story, it’s clear that the little kitten has brought her a lot of joy this week. It’s great that she has this comfort while she processes her emotions about her children starting school and the friend whom she misses.
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