I spend the first week of school floundering to keep my head above water and hand in all of the forms. (My paperwork blog about says it all.) But how can I forget that the last week of school is equally traumatizing? Conversation like this ensue: The last week of school is out to get me. It knows I’m skating …
I actually love my kids going back to school. I promise, I’m not a mean mom. I don’t despise summer. I was even fighting to keep summer going these last few weeks. Getting up at a certain time and being somewhere at a certain time are tough when school starts. But once I get over that knowledge, I get excited. …
The way I imagine a school morning should go: 5:00 a.m. I wake up (without even needing an alarm) and write 3,000 words that don’t need to be edited or rewritten ten times. 7:00 a.m. I start a homemade breakfast for the kids, hiding pureed vegetables and coconut oil in the eggs. Not only do they not complain about the …