Yes, I am counting down days until my three youngest go back to school. I didn't want to start to early, because then I might of felt greatly disappointed when those days didn't go fast enough... but I figure they are just flying by so I might as well start counting now.
In all reality I am happy they are going back to school. Then I don't have to feel guilty about them waisting their days away doing pretty much NOTHING educational. But at the same time I am going to miss having them around. They do give me more social interaction when they are around. Not always the social interaction that I would like to have, but social just the same.
I will not miss the whiny tattling one single bit... and I look forward to my kitchen staying clean for longer than two seconds. I'll miss the occasional help that I'll get from a bored kid. I will not miss having a bunch of ten year olds sitting in front of the tv killing each other on the x-box. In some ways I look forward to getting back in a routine and helping out at their school. At the same time I am full of anxiety about starting school myself. It has been 11 years since I have gone to school for myself. I have let a lot of things go that I am going to have to struggle to get back. I actually use to be good at writing... can you believe that? HAHAHAHAHA
I guess it will be good for me to go over it all again, hopefully it is somewhere back there and I'll just have to dig it out.
Today wasn't a very "happy" day. I mean it wasn't the worst day ever or anything, but some not so fun things happened. First I went to go pick up Jame's pink immunization form from the doctors office. They said the doc could fill it out and have it ready the next day. That was Tuesday. When I went to get it Thursday, nobody in the office could find it. It is always great to know they lose my stuff as easy as I lose it! Urgghh. Naughty Dr. Daynes! He is still the awesomest doctor ever... but I should get a freebie for that.:-) He did call me later to tell me he had taken it home with him to get caught up on stuff and he was really sorry. See, I told you he was the awesomest doctor ever! His nice office ladies made me a print out of immunizations (even though I am sure I looked like I wanted to rip off their heads... I kind of felt that way too) and I took that to the school to register James.
The ladies in the school office weren't impressed with one immunization that only listed the month and the year. Not like I'm the one that wrote it that way. Come on people can't they make it a little easier to send your kids to school. It is a state law and all. I was going to call Jame's old pediatrician or sign a stupid exemption paper or something... when they decided they would figure it out. Maybe they could sense my head was about to burst so they let me off easy.
Of course the whole time I was gone I was getting my usual 1 call every 3 minutes from my kids, who can't live without me. As great as that is to know I would prefer they didn't call me and proceed to have a full blown screeching and yelling fight right in my ear. It is kind of embarrassing when you answer your phone and it makes such a loud noise that the people on the opposite side of the room look over to see what that horrible noise was and it came from my little tiny cell phone that wasn't even on speaker mode. I am really surprised I can still hear. Then I have to proceed to try and stop them from fighting even though I am miles away. This never works. When I realize this, I then attempt to try and get them off the phone and to a point where they are not going to just call me back a second later. I'm not very good at that either which is maybe why they feel they have to call every three minutes.
Sometimes I "accidentally" forget my cell phone. Though those trips are usually nice and relaxing, I do tend to worry that if their is an emergency then they can't get a hold of me. Who invented cell phones? Why? I am sure it wasn't so we could carry our kids around in our pockets.
Lets just say that by the time I got home I was prepared to spend the rest of the day locked in my room listening to Enya (great meditating music). Instead I locked myself in the room and started watching TV (Rachel Ray) which I hardly ever do... and then I lost track of time. I was suppose to pick my brother up from school and pay my tuition and get my parking pass. Well, my brother called at two when I was suppose to be there and I was sitting on my bed contemplating whether or not I should take a nap. I guess that was a NEGATIVE. What is really bad is that my mom use to forget me all the time and I HATED it. And yet here I was... my poor brother. Luckily he called me early enough that I was only like 15 minutes late picking him up. If he hadn't called me he would have had a nice walk home and I would have remembered tomorrow. :-(
Now I have to apologize to my mom for being so mean. Isn't it horrible when you start doing all the things you hated! Sorry Mom! I TOTALLY understand why you forgot about me so much now ;-) .
After that the rest of the day hasn't been that bad. I think I just like to make mountains out of mole hills. I guess when that is like your only talent you got to go with it!
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I'm counting down with you.... only we have five more days. My kids have only recently discovered that they could call me on the cell phone every five minutes and continue with the tattling. Three times they called me while I was waiting for my mom at the doctors on Thursday. A mom can only take so much of it! That's why I leave home.
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