This week is going to be crazy for me. My arms are already sore from dragging boxes of Girl Guide cookies all over with my daughter trying to sell them for her Brownie group. The kids' school has parent teacher interviews this week. I guess it's going to take two days to get this done so Tue and Wed my kids get out at 1pm. Of course my interviews with the kids teachers are on Wed one after the other so I'll be done quickly but now I'll have the kids at home early. Plus as if that isn't bad enough on Friday is a ProD day so the kids are off that day too. UG!!
Why does our school have several holidays every month. I don't think my kids go to school for more than 3 weeks at a time without getting a break of some kind. It must be murder to try to find sitters or daycare for those working parents. Not to mention the financial hardship on lower income families. And our school is one of the few who has a 2 week Spring Break. That is way too long a break for the kids at the end of the year when they should be working. They get off track and forget a lot of what they are learning. Then the end of the year is full of field trips and fun stuff because the kids can't concentrate well. I don't know when kids learn now. Teachers and schools don't seem to value learning time at all. Plus kids don't get nearly enough physical play time now, but that's another post entirely.
I have a class on Monday night and a meeting Tuesday night. I don't know what I'll do with the kids if my husband is working. They have activities both nights and I'll be running around trying to get to my stuff and get them to theirs.
Having my husband work on call hours is nuts! For 10 years now I've put up with never knowing when he's going to work. It makes it impossible to make any long term plans that don't get wrecked at the last minute. Getting a sitter at the last minute is impossible too not to mention we don't have a lot of money to pay a sitter. So for the last 10 years I've not been able to do much of anything I want to. I guess that is probably the lot of many people today so I shouldn't whine too much. I have a house, plenty of food and healthy kids. What more could a mom ask for? LOTS! LOL!
So it's already half way through Oct. Where the heck did Oct go so fast? At least I've got the Halloween costume for one kid done. I have to sew a hat for the other kid and I really better get on that soon or it won't get done and I'll be saying, "It's Halloween already? Where did the time go and why am I up at 2am sewing this hat?"
So that's my week in a nutshell. Lots of work I don't want to do and not a single thing I do want to do.
Why does our school have several holidays every month. I don't think my kids go to school for more than 3 weeks at a time without getting a break of some kind. It must be murder to try to find sitters or daycare for those working parents. Not to mention the financial hardship on lower income families. And our school is one of the few who has a 2 week Spring Break. That is way too long a break for the kids at the end of the year when they should be working. They get off track and forget a lot of what they are learning. Then the end of the year is full of field trips and fun stuff because the kids can't concentrate well. I don't know when kids learn now. Teachers and schools don't seem to value learning time at all. Plus kids don't get nearly enough physical play time now, but that's another post entirely.
I have a class on Monday night and a meeting Tuesday night. I don't know what I'll do with the kids if my husband is working. They have activities both nights and I'll be running around trying to get to my stuff and get them to theirs.
Having my husband work on call hours is nuts! For 10 years now I've put up with never knowing when he's going to work. It makes it impossible to make any long term plans that don't get wrecked at the last minute. Getting a sitter at the last minute is impossible too not to mention we don't have a lot of money to pay a sitter. So for the last 10 years I've not been able to do much of anything I want to. I guess that is probably the lot of many people today so I shouldn't whine too much. I have a house, plenty of food and healthy kids. What more could a mom ask for? LOTS! LOL!
So it's already half way through Oct. Where the heck did Oct go so fast? At least I've got the Halloween costume for one kid done. I have to sew a hat for the other kid and I really better get on that soon or it won't get done and I'll be saying, "It's Halloween already? Where did the time go and why am I up at 2am sewing this hat?"
So that's my week in a nutshell. Lots of work I don't want to do and not a single thing I do want to do.
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