Yes, we're back to school. We have a brand-new kindergartener who would rather be at home, a second-year preschooler who thinks she should be headed off to college next year, and a baby along for the ride... literally, in the daily trips to and from the kids' schools.
With our first full week under our belts, it's clear that:
- Mommy needs to wake up earlier.
- The coffee machine chose an extremely inopportune time to die.
- The morning rush is ten times more headache-inducing when non-caffeinated.
- In the morning fog, you will make enemies in the school parking lot, especially when distracted by a glowering 5 year-old in the back seat, who is actually threatening that he won't smile for Picture Day.
- Dropping Joey off at school, then dragging the girls into Starbucks to gulp down coffee and braid a 3 year-old head of hair, is not a sustainable morning routine.
- After painstakingly completing two matching French braids, you will be told in no uncertain terms by said three year-old, "You're leaving me today, right?? Right??"
- Upon arriving at her classroom each day, Little Miss Independent will ignore the small tearful faces all around her, and slip inside her classroom doorway without a goodbye or backward glance.
- Left with only a baby on your hip, you're free to linger and relax at the mothers' back-to-school coffee... until, by law of nature, said baby produces the stinkiest diaper ever and necessitates an early exit.
- Half-day kindergarten and a three-hour preschool day leaves exactly two hours of non-driving "downtime," to be filled with laundry, breakfast dishes, cleaning and grocery shopping.
- Idling in the pickup carline at kindergarten is the new downtime.
-- This blog update brought to you by the school carline. We would also like to thank "Ice Age," piped in through the car DVD player, for delivering a blissful 15 minutes of silence in the back seat.
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