School is Now in Session!!!

Oh school time is back. I am glad for the structure and the ‘something to do’ my kids were badly needing toward the end of summer but BOY DO I MISS MY KIDS.  They run off to school and start learning stuff and I have to drag answers out of them to keeppace with them as they learn and grow.  L Times like this I wish I could quit my job, move to the country and homeschool!!  Meredith actually asked me if I could do that.  With a sad voice I said ‘no baby..gotta pay them crazybills!’

Here they are, grade 6 and grade 4

** On a side note, I wish I had not left when I did.  Little girl's hair looks like she rolled out of bed and said 'I'm ready!!!!**  Ugh...

I did have an opportunity to meet their teachers and they are WONDERFUL!! No anxiety in that department at all.  I’m sure as the year creeps on by you will hear more about school related activities and antics.  In fact, I have a wonderfulmorsel to share with you now!!! First day of school everyone wakes up in a wonderful mood all well slept due to mother nature finally turning off the furnace and bring withit cooler, fall-like overnights.  I walk into the kitchen as a SOCK FIGHT just cleared up between my hubby, the initiator and Jackson. Now you don’t know this but sock fights are only reserved for timeswhen Jackson can get really wound up and take what time he needs to unwind..which is a while.

Why my dear, dear, sweet hubby did this I’ll never understand.  So as a result, I’m hollering and a BIG GLASS of water gets dumped UNDER the microwave.  Feeling defeated I decide the hubby can help with the water clean-up duty asI exit from the now mounting tension in the room. I refill my coffee and retreat to the bathroom.  The door is shut which is weird so I open it...INTO MEREDITH’s FOREHEAD dropping my cup of coffee on to the floor. 

I grabbed Meredith and hugged on her and then Jackson joined in and I apologized for such a rough start to what started out to be a wonderful day.  Then I clean up the coffee, get ready, refill the coffee and end up at work 15 minutespast my start time.  Ah…..my Charlie Brown moment (GOOD GRIEF) hit like a cannon to the head (or the door to Meredith’s!)  In the end, they all had a wonderful day.  Full of excitement and wonder at the new grade that sits in front of them.  I’ll make surefrom now on, I am outa the house before the awake and avoid the train wreck I created that day!