Are We There Yet?

No, I’m not going to talk about another daycation or staycation, though I do have another day trip I have to get done before the summer ends LOL.  Nope, today, it’s about wondering when life begins to feel “normal” again.  And the answer is…not for several months.

We always know that the last week of July ends our summer, but it’s still an adjustment.  It gets even crazier right about now with all of the back to school preparations we’re in the middle of.

We are still not back in school…in fact we still have a few weeks before any of our kiddos officially go back.  That said though, we have a packed schedule…want a teensy glimpse?

• CJ meets his teacher tomorrow morning
• we have a new parent meeting for the school program on Thursday night
• Sept. 1st my elementary boys’ class lists are posted
• Sept 3rd is meet the teacher day
• and the first day of school for the elementary boys is September 9th
• CJ starts on the 14th.

In the midst of all of that, I’m waiting for word on when CJ starts football practice (should be end of next week for the first meeting then start the following Monday).  That practice will be Monday through Friday from 2:15pm until 5pm (or so).

Meanwhile, Salesman (11) and Tater (9) are still in the thick of football.  They are going down to 3 practices per week now thankfully, so they’ll be at their respective practices Tuesday through Thursday evenings for about two hours each night.  Games are every saturday from now until possibly mid-November.

We have little Lion going into Kindergarten this year and for the first time in…FOREVER…the school decided to move our part of te bus route to Morning Kindergarten.  Any other year that would have made me ecstatic, but I had actually been hoping for pm Kindergarten this year, so on to plan B.

Remember CJ will be at home this year.  Soooo, I will be in desperate need of getting my schedule into precise detail.  Sadly schedules are something that I have become quite remiss about and terrible at.  I used to be one of the most organized and scheduled people I knew, then I had kids.

I was still pretty good at organizing and scheduling until I had several.  That’s when things went downhill.  As I’m sure you all know, once you get out of the habit of doing something like that it’s hard to re-teach yourself to get back into it!

For the moment, I’m just along for the ride asking every few minutes “Are we there yet?” and waiting for the answer to be “Yes!”.