TGIF

Don't get me wrong, I love summer.  I love the lazy days of doing nothing & sleeping in.  I enjoy spending all day at the pool with no worried except what to do for lunch.  Family vacations, drive in movies, homemade ice cream- they're all great.  But like they say, all great things must come to an end.   And I'm ready for this summer vacation to be over.  My kids are driving me insane & they need to go back to school.   I'm afraid if I attempt to leave the house to take them somewhere, I might forget lose them  and they won't make it back home. 

Today alone, Cheeks has cried at least 4 times at the hands of one of her brothers.  In fact, I overheard her composing a letter on behalf of my middle son.

Dear Mrs. Teacher, I hate A.  He beats up N a million times a day.  It would be funny if he cried.

Is it wrong that I'm hiding being extremely busy in my bedroom & allowing them to fight it out?    It might have something to do with my high strung lovely daughter crying because one of the boys didn't make her cereal the correct way.  Really?  I wasn't aware there was a wrong way.  We then had a total meltdown over the fact someone drank the last Capri sun and didn't look in the pantry for me (there were in fact 4 more boxes waiting to be placed in the fridge).   They're all playing a video game in the living room right now.  I say play.  It's pretty much Cheeks begging to be included and then complaining each time one of the boys kills her character on the screen. 

I have further appreciation for the summer days that my mother locked my brother & I outside or forced us to play in different areas of the house.  If one of us was upstairs, the other had to be down.  I hated it at the time, but I now realize it was for our safety so she wouldn't kill us. 

So..  anybody wanna join me for a mommy's back to school party? You know the one where we meet for lunch on the first day back after our naps & enjoy the quiet.