School schedules
School starts Wednesday.
We have notebooks, textbooks, folders, pens and pencils stacked in the dining room ready to be loaded into backpacks and hoisted onto the backs of my pack mules teenagers for them to lug around a campus that has some classrooms 1/3 of a mile apart.
That being said, I’m ready. I like the routine of everyone getting up and out, knowing exactly where they are for seven hours and that someone — an adult — will call me if there is a problem. I have had no schedule this summer, despite my best efforts. My kids don’t impede my work, I do. It’s just not the same when I can’t set the clock.
My son will be in school from 7:30 to 3:00 every day. My daughter will be at the same school from 8:30 to 3:00. This year they’ll have the same days off. They’re even scheduled for the same school trip one weekend in November.
Their schedule allows me to set my own. Last September I determined a timeline that worked until May and I’m going back to that, tweaking as need be considering I have more things going on.
Back to school for me means the writing gets back on track. And that’s really why it’s the most wonderful time of the year.
Although when I saw this Staples commercial I laughed out loud.
My daughter starts school Wednesday. We’re going to the open house tonight. She’s excited – I’m a bit sad. Fourth grade this year!
We’re a Wednesday start, too. Yippee! My youngest is in preschool, though, so just three afternoons a week for her. Still, this stay-at-home mom really needs a structure change, and bad.
“I like the routine of everyone getting up and out”
Really??! What’s your secret on that one? Nothing but STRESS at our house.
Ha Ha- I also laughed out loud at the advert. Very funny!
As much as I enjoy the school holidays, it is good to get everyone back into a routine as I tend to become very demotivated when I don’t have deadlines.
Here in England, my daughters don’t go back to school for another 3 weeks! They will have had 7 weeks off this summer and we have had pretty awful weather for most of it so far. Let’s hope the rest of it is better.
Great post
Best wishes from the UK
Tracey
Mine starts high school this year, and we just had freshman orientation last night. What a cluster!! It’s even my old high school and they’ve changed it so much I was like, “I’m sorry baby, I can’t help you!” ‘A’ wing is now ‘B’ wing and they have ‘E’ and ‘F’ wings that weren’t there before. Crraaaaaappp!
I’m looking forward to getting back to a schedule but am not looking forward to the getting up and out part. Despite my best efforts at planning an easy morning escape it is always a mad rush out the door. *sigh*
That commercial is hilarious. Thanks for sharing!