My favorite thing about you:
Is that you're back in school.
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Lets play "State The Obvious". The reasons I'm loving that you're back in school are three fold:
1) Last week. I'm happy you're anywhere but the hospital.
2) You love school.
3) I need you gone to miss you.
Yes. Finally. Three weeks into September and both kids in school. For this I'm thankful. Ugh. What a terrible mom, right? But seriously... Aside from the 50% discount on responsibility, I appreciate the one on one time I get with each kid. For about two minutes this fall, I thought I was going to get some time to myself three days a week (I had a mid-morning date with my garden tub - or more realistically, time to clean said garden tub), but that didn't happen when Haley got PM kindergarten. So, if I can't have undivided time with myself, I'm thankful to have it with one kid at a time.
This summer we spent a lot of time the three of us, which was great. But we get sick of one another and need a break. Yup, I said it, I get sick of my kids (and truthfully, they get sick of me too). School is just the remedy to keep me from the crazy house - or a job outside the home. I can't miss their presence around the house if they're not gone. Why would you want to miss your kids? Anyone asking this question isn't a stay-at-home-mom. Because I can't use the ladies room between the hours of 6am and 7pm without the door being flung wide open, for starters. For finishers, it's the three of us for most of the day (even with school), and I'm left out. With just one, they're forced to come to me for entertainment and they entertain the crap out of me. I get to know them better as individuals. We work on school skills that need extra attention. We hang out, run errands that are easier with one (so everything), and wonder what the missing one is up to.
And once we're the three of us again, they have a million questions for the other - they hate not knowing what the other one has been up to/what they missed out on. I love those conversations; I turn the radio off and just listen, because I'm in the same boat.
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