Every day we are inching closer to the kids going back to school. Part of me wants to jump for joy but the other part just wants the lazy days of summer to last for a bit longer.
My kids are all "big" now...they don't go outside and run in the sprinkler, they don't ride scooters around the cul-de-sac, they don't play with the hose....so they are for the most part sucking the air from the room, taking up space and whining that there isn't anything to do....my tolerance is a bit thin to say the least. :) Love them, don't get me wrong. They are my favorite things in the whole wide world, they just are stinkers sometimes. They like to take advantage of free range xbox time when mom passes out asleep at 10:00pm. I have no idea what time they are going to bed, I assume late by their grumpiness the next day. But htose nights are coming to an end. We have to start wheening them back into a school schedule much to their dissappointment. i'll let them have this last weekend, but then it is back to bedtime at 7:30 (just kidding) remember those glory days with little ones...full on REM sleep by 8:30. Left so much time for Alex and I to relax together, talk, watch a good movie, scrapbook..whatever, now this glorified time is shared with 3 boys. Not quiite the same experience I must say....
But as much as I complain, I really like having them home with me. I love watching sportscenter with them. I love sending them facebook messages from across the room (they love that, well not really, but I think it is lol funny) I love that football has started and we spend the evenings together at the field. I love late dinners. I love the simple times one on one. I love listening to Alex and one of them talking while they throw the football around. I love that they are in their jammies until 2pm ( well I don't really love this, it drives me nuts, but I wish I loved it ).
This year we are starting new schools for 2 of the 3. Ayden will be in highschool and Ketner is going into middleschool. These 2 things bring about a ton of changes for all of us. Honors classes for some, geometry for 2, lots of new experiences and challenges and changes that i think I need to really pray hard over the next 10 days or so. It's going to be different for sure. I don't look forward to the chaos of mornings, chaos of homework, chaos of afternoons, chaos of sports, chaos of friends and the social life that comes , chaos of life...so summer, slow down a bit. Let me savor these 3 a bit longer... I kinda like 'em!! and I am not good at sharing.
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