Tomorrow is the last day of school for our kids. And while this will create all sorts of daycare headaches for a couple of weeks, I am probably more relieved to reach this milestone than the kids are!
No more spending hours each night locked in the kitchen, so that DD actually works on her homework instead of just picking at her cuticles and pretending too work whenever I walk in the room.
No more tensing up every time the phone rings with the school number, wondering who did what this time. (Now I just have to watch for the summer program's number...)
No more checking the teachers' website every afternoon to verify that what DD claims is her homework is actually correct. Too often she "forgets" some of the assignments.
No more rushing in the morning to ensure that all the requisite fruit/snacks/paperwork is completed and remembered.
No more memory work in the car on the way to school.
No more exhaution in the PM after the kids get to bed too late, so I can actually have energy to blog again.
I'm actually very pleased with how things have gone this year (for most days, anyway), but by this point, the teachers' patience with DD has worn thin, DS is getting tense because endings always depress him and throw him out of whack, and I just want to spend afternoons in the yard instead of manning the homework table. Plus, this is when I can spend more time enjoying my kids and less time policing them. And that's good for everyone!
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Oh yes - I love holidays for exactly the same reasons. Here in Australia we have a two week winter term break coming up - I'm so looking forward to just mucking about, sleeping in, letting the kids bake cookies and watch dvds when it's too wet to be outdoors, and no worrying about what's happening at school for Seth or who has homework to complete.
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