How Many More Days Until School Starts?

August 7, 2012 By

There are moms that love when their kids go to school and there are moms that love when their kids are home. There are also moms that as much as they love their kids can’t seem to find a happy medium between the two and that is the camp I fall into. I love not having to wake up early (before 7). I love that my kids don’t have homework or tests or the responsibilities that school brings. That being said, I was going to do a list of reasons why I want school to start immediately but knew I did one this time last year. When I looked at it, it has the same things on it last year as I would put right now so I am just going to repost those:

1. I am tired of shelling out money all day long. Though they find ways to earn it, I feel like this was the summer, I bled money.

2. I am tired of the kitchen being open all day long. I am shocked by the amount of food that five teenage boys can eat in a two-hour period of time.

3. I am tired of my days starting at 7:00am with Gia and then just when she is getting ready to go down for a nap at 11:00, the other three get out of bed ready for their day to start.

4. I am ready for the mornings to start with showers, breakfast and treatments instead of TV, TV, “Can I call someone?”

5. I’m tired of hearing, “Whoops! I forgot to eat breakfast” or “Whoops! I forgot to eat lunch.”

6. I can’t wait for Gia’s nap to mean the house will be silent for about 2 hours.

7. I am tired of saying, “Ssh! Gia is sleeping.”

8. I can’t wait for the kids’ social lives to take a backseat to school, football and cheerleading.

9. It will be nice not to communicate with Nico by texts every hour asking him, “Where are you now? What are you doing?”

10. The house can close up by 9:00pm.

11. Children will all be in bed by 10:00.

12. No more fighting all day long.

13. Summer has sucked the brains right out of my kids. I need them to go back to school so I have proof that they are indeed smart.

14. I am SO tired of hearing these questions: “Can I have someone over?” “I’m bored.” “Can we go to Dairy Queen?” “Can I go to Target with you ?” “Can we have a sleepover?”

15. The biggest reason I can’t wait for school to start is: NO MORE SLEEPOVERS!!!!!!!

On a side note, we are on Day 2 of “No Binky”. Send wine, vodka, tequila…

What about you? Which camp do you fall into? Can’t wait for school to start? Sad that it is? Somewhere in between?

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Summer Blogging and Writer’s Block

July 6, 2012 By

This summer has been tough. I have written several posts about it: you can read all of June’s posts in case you missed the chaos of this summer. The hardest part for me is the blogging part. I can’t get caught up. I can’t write the way I want. I can’t sit and read the blogs I love to read. Last summer I didn’t know what I was missing. I wasn’t a part of the blogging community. This summer, I have made connections and found women that I care about and care what happens in their lives so I know what I am missing. Call me strange but I love tuning in to see what is going on in their worlds and sitting at the computer reading and sometimes chatting is the equivalent of meeting for coffee and catching up. I wanted to put links to all of the blogs that I read daily but my link button isn’t working (I have bought Word Press for Dummies and have scoured the SITS site and am working on being a better WP user because what I do know how to use, I love).

The other thing is this…it is hard to write in this heat (104 yesterday, 103 and rising today). I haven’t experienced this much writer’s block since I was in college having to write term papers. I don’t want to be a “Negative Nelly” or a “Sappy Sally” and right now, I am either or on any given day. My power is back on and really, I am thankful. My air conditioning is on its last leg and the thermostat is broken so it won’t let me change the temperature lower. Instead, the air will only kick on when it gets to a certain degree in the house which I am certain is 110 degrees. So…while I am thankful for the air…my face is melting off making it hard to write ANYTHING!

Contrary to what it might look like, it is rare that I have longer than ten minutes at my computer on any given day to write anything anyway. I email, check Facebook, or go on Twitter (Have I mentioned how much I love Twitter these days?) from my phone while waiting in carpool lines, drive-thru lines, doctor’s offices and at baseball or basketball games (only when my kid isn’t playing). I’m not good enough to blog from my phone and I miss it.

What about you bloggers? How has summer changed your blogging habits?

 For those that don’t blog, has summer made something hard that is normally easy for you? Are you not able to do something that normally you loved to do?

Thankfully, I have Mama Kat’s Writing Prompts to help me along. Linking up with her today:

Mama’s Losin’ It

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Summer Break: One Week Down

June 15, 2012 By

I didn’t think my life could get any more crazy or chaotic. I was wrong. So very wrong. This week was insane with activities. Here is the gist of it:

Monday: Nico had basketball camp in the afternoon. Belle had dance camp in the afternoon. I was carpool mom for basketball.

Tuesday: Nico had basketball. Belle had her dance rehearsal all afternoon. Thank you so much, Viv for taking her for me! Tommy had 3 friends over (more on that in a minute). Nico was out and about after camp. Tommy had a baseball game. Nico had basketball again.

Wednesday: Nico had football camp in the morning and basketball in the afternoon. Belle had her dance recital which as I was in the midst of getting her ready and driving and finding parking (well, arguing with Leo who couldn’t seem to find the bank parking lot to park in and then griped about paying $4 for the garage), I thought and might have said, “This is the last time she is doing this.” Then…I saw her on stage and she just glowed. She loves it so much. How can I deny her? I see a lot more chaos in my future. Especially since Gia kept saying, “Me do!” Well, she said that for the first five dances and then she started yelling, “I want to get out! Get out!” Good times since there were 50 or more dances and Belle was #38.

Thursday: Nico had football and basketball camp. Belle had dance camp that I was the carpool mom for. The carpool is taking turns having the girls over so they came back here (more on that in a bit) for two hours. Tommy had baseball practice. Nico had a baseball game that the girls and me went to and then Nico had more basketball.

Today (Friday): Belle has camp and then a recital tonight. I wasn’t really planning on that but again, she loves it so Gia and I will be there cheering for her. Tommy was asked to play in a tournament for a team that was short guys so he has that and Leo will be there with him.

Next week will bring no camps for Belle but basketball camp for Tommy. Nico’s schedule will remain crazy and all I can think of is how much more crazy can we take? Are you wondering why I didn’t say no to any of them? Well, Nico going into freshmen year has to go to some of these camps if he wants to play in high school. Nico went to all the ones Tommy is going to when Nico was his age so it is only “fair” and Belle cries that no one cares about any of her stuff so she never gets to go to any camps. That’s why I didn’t say no.

I said I’d talk about when the twins had friends over and I just have to know, are my kids the only ones that are socially…hmmm…awkward? I mean they act in a way that is not at all like themselves. They talk in this way that is annoying. They ask to do things I’d never allow them to do. They are hyper. On several occasions, I’ve had to take them aside and tell them to knock it off. Their friends are angels while here which only gives me hope that at their houses maybe my kids are angels and not the little monsters they morph into every time they have friends over.

While complaining with a friend about all of the stuff that goes with kids’ sports, we said we wished there was a town called NoSportsAllowed Town where the only focus was on relaxing and any mention of balls would get you shot in the ass. The sports balls, not the other kind of balls…just to be clear so you wouldn’t get shot in the ass if you visited.

There would be absolutely no bleachers, no referees, no keeping score, no weigh ins, no tryouts, no flag running, no back to back camps or talk of A teams or B teams. There will be no strikeouts or dropped balls (because there will be no balls), nothing that measures any one kid against another and there will be no yelling to “hustle”, “shoot”, “tackle” or “run”. Kids will be able to be kids and you will do more with friends other than wave to each other on your way to another God-forsaken camp or game.

If you are wondering, this town is right next to the town called NoOneCaresIfYou’reFatTown.

At this point, it’s a toss-up on which one I’d want to live in.

So who’s moving with me? How is everyone else surviving this summer?

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