Back to School Means Back to Sanity
15 Aug
Yes, I’ve enjoyed moments. Perhaps a few days or a week here and there but overall… I can’t wait for the bus to roll up to my house in three days! (I have a yearly lunchtime margarita party when the kids go back… will you be there?) There are only so many things to do in the country and my kids are living proof that summer vacation boredom sets in faster than stink on a pig (sorry. I couldn’t resist the country/farm innuendo).
In fact, if I had the option for year round school, I would be first in line. I would camp out in the rain or sleet or snow for a chance for my kids to go year round. I’d be like those concert groupies that pitch tents and live outside ticket booths weeks before concert tickets go on sale. I’m just saying, I’m not above it.
Was that too harsh? Maybe, but when you work from home like I do, it takes all of three weeks of summer vacation before my kids are at one another’s throats, in my hair, or calling out how they have nothing to do (I come with a list of chores every summer but oddly enough no one wants to take me up on it). It takes all of those three weeks for me to start counting down to back to school time.
Besides, by the time August rolls around, I have kids that are more than ready for me to get out of their hair as well. The feeling is mutual and we aren’t ashamed to say it. In fact, yesterday I threw my hands up in the air and screamed to the heavens, “IS IT TIME FOR SCHOOL YET?!” To which Bug replied, “NO BUT I CAN’T WAIT!”
See. The kids and I agree. It’s time. School should start.
This year may be as wonderful as it is bittersweet too. Peanut has finally mastered daytime potty training and so I’m considering putting him in preschool for a few hours a week. I think it will be a good thing for him to play with other kids his own age, (I’m fun for about 10 minutes) and also have his own “school” experience. Plus, I’m sure he needs a break from me as well.
We’ve already begun the back to school nighttime routines, bedtimes and even morning routines. That means everyone up and dressed before noon (including me). It’s my small way of celebrating every day that the first day of school is around the corner and it’s a great way to make sure kids aren’t thrown into the school routine too fast. Inching our way in to the back to school routine has always been a way for the kids to come to grips with the fact that summer is over and it’s time to get ready for learning again.
It’s not just the kids though that need to get back into the routine, it’s me too. Summer time meant I varied my work schedule to work around their school day. By 3pm, I needed to be wrapping up projects and getting ready for after school activities, dinner and anything else we had going on. I also slept in since they slept in… Man, I will miss that.
I’m wondering though, who else is looking forward to the kids going back to school besides me… should we have a club for it? Would it be wrong to partake in an afternoon cocktail in celebration if we did have a club? Should we keep the husbands out since they don’t get what all the celebrating is about?
This is just off the top of my head but I’m pretty sure I could make this a nationwide campaign for moms everywhere to celebrate going back to school.
Don’t get m wrong. I adore my children, all of them but I adore the school year a smidge more than I probably should.
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Same here, I enjoyed summer time as I have enough quality time with my kids. However, we need to send our children to school in the next few days. Nice post by the way.
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