Nope, the kids still aren't in school. (Although I'm really enjoying everyone else's 1st Day of School pictures.)
Next Monday...
I have mixed feelings about this. While it will be nice to not run errands with 5 children (2 tag-alongs sounds semi-sane), I'm not looking forward to all the rushing around the school year involves. Having been a stay at home mom since the beginning, all the kids being home seems normal. It's times like these when I wish I had the balls to homeschool.
The activities will be starting soon. The other day I received an email to pick up Em, Ally, and Kyle's soccer shorts. Zach's hockey practice will be on Fridays. Slowly our weekly schedule is filling up. I'm not looking forward to quick dinners and hurried homework in the evenings. It's not that the kids do that much (and I'm totally breaking my joke of "Kyle and Kelly aren't allowed to do anything" because Kyle is in soccer now). But after a summer of no where to be, no time to be there, a Friday hockey practice at 5:30 seems like a huge road stop in the week. (I haven't heard from the soccer coaches yet.)
The ironic thing is that I personally have to send out emails and add stress to other parents' schedules. Brownie Girl Scouts! I have a co-leader this year and I'm not sure how much I'm going to like this. "My" troop is now "our" troop. It'll be interesting...
So I'm going to enjoy this last week as much as possible. We don't have anything planned and I like it that way. Em and Ally have put together a brown paper bag puppet show, Kyle and Kelly are coloring in Christmas themed coloring books (gah, don't even mention Christmas!), and Zach has challenged me to another game of Clue (I'm so glad we are past Candyland). I look forward to hearing "I'm bored!" My answer will be:
Good. Enjoy it.
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