Is anyone else glad that school starts back on Monday?

[sdarwkcabemanmy]

At least in the summer, I could take him to the pool for several hours each day and wear him out.

School was out all week this week so he was home for a grand total of nine days. I was woefully unprepared..I ran out of things to keep him occupied on the second day. It was really too cold to go outside, so we were basically stuck indoors all week. He watched entirely too much TV and was on the computer far too much, but I didn't know what else to do. I have NO idea what I'm going to do when Christmas vacation comes in a few weeks and he's out of school for nearly 3 weeks.

Also..and I know I"m a BAD parent for this but..would it be wrong of me to wish he had a zipper on his mouth? All week long..yakyakyakyakyakyak. "Mommy what's this?"
"Mommy can I haffa coffee pease?"
"Mommy..mommy..mommy..MOMMY!"
"Mommy I huggy..can I haff a popchart?" even though he'd just finished his breakfast/lunch/dinner.
"Mommy can I call *friend* pease?" when I don't have any ph.#s for the kids in his class and he's really too young to be calling ANYONE outside of immediate family on the phone anyway.

I need a vacation from his school vacation.

 

[BeckyScott]

They must go back to school. We didn't have the whole week off, but I'm still about to lose it.

Wednesday they spent most of the day in awe that they get 5 days off.
Thursday the fought constantly while I attempted to fix dinner. We did discover that Justin will eat turkey (and honestly this is a surprise) as long as it has salt on it. Well really it was a turkey breast and it was a little dry so I can understand needing some seasoning.
Friday they both started ding-donging us at about 10:00 to put up the Christmas stuff. DH caved in at 2 and started throwing boxes down from the attic. We put up everything in about a half hour (we don't do a whole lot) tried to find batteries for all the battery-powered stuff, and Justin proceeded to spend most of the rest of the day staring at the blinking lights.
Yesterday I forced us to leave the house. We went to the library and the Salvation Army was having a half-price sale. The kids each bought a toy that they didn't need, both of which did need batteries, and both of which will probably end up right back at the Salvation Army in 6 months.

(What is the deal with batteries? Is it just us? We have the most battery-using kids... )

This morning I see it is snowing. I don't know if that's good or bad. It's our first snow this year, but seriously it's almost December.... but it's not a big snow at this point, just flurries. I'm sure Richard will want to go outside and mess around.

One more day... need caffeine...

 

[sdarwkcabemanmy]

Ever since his THanksgiving Feast at school on the 20th, DS has been asking 'Issa my Christmas NOW?" every single day. I finally had him help me make a bunch of paper strips, which we taped into rings which form a chain that hang from a piece of paper that says "How Many Days Till Christmas" that's in the kitchen. Every day we go and tear off a ring and he knows that's it's one day closer.

We've also been having fun with Gerald Oodleknees, our Elf On The Shelf that DSIL gave us on Thurs.

He actually did better on Thurs than we expected. We had two dinners..one at a buffet resteraunt with my family (Mom just had foot surgery, so she didn't feel like cooking naturally) and a sitdown at DH"s parents. He ate a good meal at the buffet and then sat politely down with us at the IL's even though he didn't eat much there. And even though he didn't have a nap at all, he didn't melt down.

He's getting away from naps and I fear that by next summer he won't be taking them at all. I don't know what I'm going to do then. I guess I"ll figure that out when summer comes.

 

[KirstenB]

I'm ready to send everyone back to school and work tomorrow!!

We went to Va Beach for the holiday. My sister was hosting, and since we take up a fair amount of room, we stayed at my in-laws house, since they were out of town. MIL has a million knick-knacks. I think Zoe pulled every single one down. Then she has a habit of hiding her found treasures in various closets around the house. DH took both kids out to lunch Friday, while I re-arranged our in-laws house!!

Zoe doesn't have a lot of words so she's spent the last 4 days pulling me around the house by the arm. Also, if she can't find me for more than 5 seconds, she yells "Mama" at the top of her lungs until I answer. I think I'm slowly going deaf!!

All in all, she did very well this holiday, so it was nice.

 

[sdarwkcabemanmy]

Qe went to my MIL's on Thurs for dinner and by the time we left, I was feeling more deaf than when I'd arrived. MIL has an old upright piano in her dining room (don't ask), which DS and The Destroyer (Dnephew) took great delight in pounding on.

DMIL is also near deaf in one ear but refuses to get a hearing aid because she's 'not that old' so she keeps the TV cranked up to an unbearable level.

 

[alizesmom]

You have school in the morning? You mean not everyone gets the day off since it's the first day of hunting season???????? LOL but we really do. Karen

 

[sdarwkcabemanmy]

Oh lord..we have hunting season, but we don't get off for it. Every year when somebody says "It's hunting season now" I crack up. One year, DH and I went to visit his grandparents right before Thanksgiving when MI's hunting season opened. It was the most bizarre sight I'd ever seen to go driving down the highway (back to the airport) and see SUVs with dead deer strapped to them. I'd never do it..I don't think I could shoot an animal. But to each their own. Deer is tasty and duck is nice. I've also had rattlesnake (tastes kind of like chicken), frog (not bad either) and moose (really, really gross).

 

[debbi801]

I was very glad for everyone to go back today (although I wasn't happy to go back to work).

But... Did anyone else's child have difficulties transitioning back to school after being off? DS spent the first half of the day melting down and not doing any of his school work. And that wa after us trying to prepare him for going back.

 

[sdarwkcabemanmy]

DS kept asking if we could go to school last week. I had to explain a hundred times that he was on vacation and that school would resume in X# of days. He really, really likes school and today when we got home, he told me about how *Boy* and *Other Boy* were chasing him on the playground. I could tell he really missed his friends from school.

 

[BeckyScott]

Ugh.

And then yesterday I flipped over to the December on my calendar and it is scary!

Three weeks of school, then break again!

 

[sdarwkcabemanmy]

I know..three weeks of school then they're out again for almost 2 weeks.

I have NO idea what I'm going to do with him all that time..I don't like going outside and being cold, so he's cooped up in the house all the time and we don't have any indoor stuff (except the library) to do around here.

I COULD brave the traffic and take him to the next town over, where there's a mall, etc but I don't think I'm that brave. I don't drive (much) and the traffic from here to there is just way too heavy and it makes me nervous trying to drive in it.

 

[kaffinito]

Thank God for ex-husbands! He and I swap the kids during breaks - usually two/three days on and two/three days off. It makes it bearable for both of us during those terrible school breaks.

I do have some stuff planned. We are going to go to the Library too, and John (age 8) and I will make pinecone bird feeders and pinecone ornaments.

We are spending to nights at Frankenmuth for the waterpark, and after that I don't know! I have maybe three days out of the whole two weeks covered.

Activities aside that still leaves roughy 94 hours of "When is school going to go back?" "Mommy, Ben hit me!" and "Where/when is..."

 

[Luv Bunnies]

Well, I hate to be the lone dissenter but I had a great 5 days off with my boys last week. DH had to work the day before Thanksgiving but had the other 4 days off. We all slept late everyday. We watched the parade together on Thursday and went to see Bolt together on Friday. None of us were happy about going back to school on Monday (I work at a school). We can hardly wait 2 more weeks for Christmas break to start! Although, I will say my 2 least favorite days every year are the first day of school and the first day after Christmas break. It's just so depressing when the fun ends and you have to go back to the grind!

 

[sdarwkcabemanmy]

kaffinito--I envy you! I wish I could go to Frankenmuth right now for some fudge and a chicken dinner at Zehnder's! My DH's family is from there and we LOVE going to Frankenmuth. It's so pretty there this time of year, even if you are freezing cold.