Please, Go Back To School!!

Repeat, repeat, repeat.

We are just finishing up the second, yes you heard it correctly, second Spring Break for my kids today. They were only off 10 days in March, and four days over the Easter weekend, but, hey, who’s counting? And who’s keeping track of how many days it has rained?

There is so much standing water hanging around in the back yard, that we have named it “The Swamp” and will soon be turning it into a live biology project. So what the heck happens to the average kid brain when he/she is off school for extended periods of time?

Well, it makes my kids darned lazy. I wonder what the teachers will have to put up with tomorrow when a bunch of bleary-eyed, rained out kids, ascend upon their classrooms. I’m so glad that I will be miles away from it all. Mommies In Orbit loves her kids, but too much of a good thing makes me crazed.

How my kids act at home.

Self Portrait!

I never planned on looking like this when I had kids, it just happened! Little by little the varmits have sucked the very life out of me. By 9:00 pm, I’m wasted, and not in a good way. When they first started full day school, I was delirious with joy, knowing that for 7 hours I was free to visit the bathroom all by myself, eat lunch sitting down, and rejoice in the silence.

I could go for the year round school system, but we don’t have it in our area. Kids get too far out of the loop over summer break and long holidays. They need the structure that only a school can provide. When I go to teacher’s conferences, they inform me that my kids are polite, get along with classmates and are doing well with their school work. It’s hard to believe that these are the same smart mouth barbarians that live under my roof.

I’ve “heard” that I will miss them when they go off to college, maybe, or maybe not? It’s different for everyone and Motherhood came to me so late in life that I was already used to time alone. We still have a long way to go until they are both in college. In the meantime, I will cope burying my head in my hands at my computer desk while I work on this blog, enjoy my mini-martinis, look to Smart Border Collie for answers and hope that the sun comes out soon.