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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

mom's night before school checklist

It's that time of year again.
Happens every year without fail.
Goes a little something like this...

9 year old boy head buzzed fresh?  Check.
Girls haircuts?  Check.
First day of school outfits laid out?  Check.
Lunch fixings ready to go?  Check.
Posters for the first day of school pictures?  Check.

Think about how much math our 4th grader didn't do this summer?  Got it.

Overthink the complicated dynamic at our 1st graders school with her biological mother who teaches 1st grade at the same school?  Been doing that all week.

Ponder just how much we've prepared our 10th grader for a challenging academic year?  Check.

PANIC the HELL out because tomorrow begins the last year our 12th grader will be under our roof? Double check.

And seriously.  The top of the chain is a Senior at Texas A&M this year?  Cannot be.  How did we get here??

Why is it that every year, the night before school starts, well after our kiddo's have passed out, I'm still up pondering just how prepared they each are and tenderly recalling exactly where they all are in the cycle of life?  Wasn't it enough that I had a hard time sleeping while I was the KID on the night before school started? Really?  As an adult, I think it's much worse!

I know, when I'm calm and reasonable, that our kids are well rounded, they're prepared and will excel all year long, blah, blah, blah.

But late at night....I worry.

It's much harder being a mom than I thought it would be.  My heart really does walk around all day outside of my body and it's crazy uncomfortable some days!  The hours spent building your kids up only to spend the rest of the hours worrying that it's not enough are tough.

But the thing is...the payoff is great.

I am so proud of all six of our kids.  I couldn't ask for more.
And I love being their mom.

Even on the night before school starts.

-McGee