School Is IN For The Summer

School starts back tomorrow, and while I have heard a ton of moms say that they are dreading the start of school, and will miss their children like crazy, that is NOT ME.  Since school let out back in May I have been waiting on this day, quietly waiting and counting down the days to take them back to that glorious brick building and drop them off, and drive away!  It’s not that I don’t love or enjoy my children, because believe me, I do, it’s just that, dear God, they are freaking crazy! Between the constant fighting that my two oldest do, and how incredibly insanely crazy and hyper my four year old is, and how in to everything my sixteen month old is, I start feeling a little crazy, okay a lot crazy.  I look forward to the day they go back to school so that I can have my house back with a few less cheerios in the floor, and a few less toys lying around for me to trip and fall over.  I look forward to having a few hours to myself every morning where it is quiet enough that I can hear myself think, and think about real stuff, not just what I’m going to feed my kids for lunch or dinner.  I look forward to being able to take a shower without a four year old wanting me to draw stick people on the shower door with conditioner, so that they won’t fade away.  The first day of school is the beginning of my summer vacation.  I have worked my ass off all summer trying to entertain and take care of my four children  When school starts I have time for myself, time to write, time to draw, time to sit down and watch TV that doesn’t include Spongebob or a Disney movie.  After a few weeks into the school year, however, I will begin to miss the chaos, miss the crazy, miss the interrupted showers, miss the cheerios in the floor, and miss the Disney movies.  I will miss my kids, and will continue missing them throughout the rest of the year.  I will long for the day when I pick them up from that horrible brick building for the last time of the school year, and then I will remember how bad the summers really are, how crazy and exhausting they really are, and then I will long for August, so that I can take them back to that glorious brick building.