So let's get back into the swing of things. Laundry, check! More crafts projects planned than I have hours in a year, check! Drowning under a pile of papers from school, check!
Does everyone else have this problem? Every day the kids come home with a backpack full of papers. *Sentimental Parents Look Away Now* I pitch all their school papers right away (with the exception of report cards and about 1 art work and test per child per year). Then we wade through the homework sheets, every day for Zach: 1 math, 1 spelling, occasional social studies, every day for Em and Ally: 1 math, 1 phonics, 1 spelling/writing each. A tree was just chopped down somewhere for their weekly homework.
And then there are the papers that require me to do something. Sign this test and send it back saying you saw it! Support our school and order through Market Day! Write down every book your child reads this month! Fill out the number of minutes your child reads every day! Buy a Birthday Book to donate to our library! Order Scholastic Books! RSVP to our Book Fair! (I love the kids reading and books and all but this.is.too.much.) Can we go back to rock and chisel? I bet that would cut down the amount of crap they want me to sign. Or give all the children back problems. One or the other...
What really gets me are the announcement papers: Next Tuesday is 100 days of school! Tomorrow we will see the 4th graders bang on drums! Wednesday is wear *random color* day! Donate a teddy bear to a local hospital! Times three... And often they send reminder papers home for the same darn thing a few days later: Tuesday is 100 days of school! We watched 4th grades bang on drums, awesome! Don't forget to wear *random color* on Wednesday! Donate a teddy bear to a local hospital! Times three... I'm feeling guilty about the overflowing landfills now.
I'm trying my best to keep this all under control. At first I kept important announcement papers in a magnet clip on the fridge. But it gets knocked down too often and I forget to look past whatever is on top. I tried a folder but it's too easy to lose it in all of the kids' folders and notebooks. I have a "homework drawer" but announcement papers tend to be overlooked when shut away in a drawer.
So I've taken to leaving these papers on my desk. Which is annoying because my desk always seems messy but at least I usually flip through the papers daily. Except when I'm not at my desk. Like when I'm in Ohio for the weekend. Which means I missed that today is 100 days of school and Zach was suppose to bring in 100 of something. Oops. But I know that tomorrow is wear *random color* day because I have 6 sheets telling me so! Not that we own anything in *random color*...
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