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Anybody else excited that school is almost out for the summer?

luv2sparkle

luv2sparkle

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I am so excited! Every year I live for this and then start dreading when we have to go back! I had my first baby at 22, (DD) and I feel like I have been doing the school thing forever!!!!

No more making lunches in the morning and rushing to get out of the house in time! I drive about 12 miles of So. Cal freeways to get me kid to school every day. No more worrying about homework and
making sure projects are done!

I have 5 more years until my last child is out of high school! I can''t wait.


What are you glad to be done with for the summer? What are your summer days like?


For me, lots of reading and sewing, and sitting by the pool. No crazy running around.
 
Oh man, I can''t wait for school to end!!! No more scrambling to find a clean piece of uniform because someone didn''t check the night before, no more rushing over to school with a forgotten lunch, band instrument, project, etc., and no more coordinating after-school activities. I have 4 kids at 2 different schools, so that can sometimes be challenging.

I''m looking forward to sleeping in and lazy breakfasts with real food (not just cereal or whatever I can fit in the toaster). I also love marinating meat and veggies in the morning, spending all afternoon at the pool, then coming back and throwing dinner on the grill - so easy and relaxing!

I started having kids at 24, and I only have 10 MORE YEARS until my youngest graduates high school. I should not have stopped to figure that out.
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Yes, but sadly it''s because traffic will be a LOT lighter! I miss the days when I was excited for other reasons. LOL.
 
Yes. I''m sick of studying-induced migraines.
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Luv2sparkle, normally I would totally agree with you, summers are such a wonderful break from the usual hectic running around, but this year is a little bittersweet for me. My son is graduating high school in June, and my daughter is in college. I am oddly a little sad and depressed about not having to make lunches anymore, or any of the other school activities. I''ll be an empty nester, and it''s going to be weird for awhile. But I can totally relate to your excitement, I have always loved the summer break!
 
I'm so excited for the school year to be over! I love my class but they're so done for the year. No one really wants to be there anymore, and it's so hard to focus on getting work done.

We're moving (to where, we're not sure yet!), so my summer will be spent looking for a place to live, getting things out of storage, and unpacking. My husband starts a new job, so he'll be busy getting reacclimated (he's worked for this co. before, in the same dept., with the same people).

Other than that, I'll have time to see family and friends again. I can't wait to go to the beach too and go to our favorite seafood restaurants on the water. Sitting on the docks, having a drink and dinner while enjoying the view -- that's the best! We're very excited to get back home, but I'm not looking forward to the actual move(s).

Oh! We're also going to go back to the restaurant where our RD and our wedding was and celebrate our second anniversary. We couldn't go last year and we were sad.
 
Junebug, I am sure that I will feel that when my last one graduates. When my others have graduated I definitely felt that. I was sad. I have always taken great pains with school lunches, because I
can''t think of anything worse than being at school all day and eating the same thing for lunch day after day. When my other kids needed extra cash they would sell the school lunches I made them!
It would just crack me up to go to school to help out for something, and kids I didn''t even know would come up to me and say, ''Mrs. ----, you make the best lunches!'' That was how I found out they
were selling them!

With 5 kids, I am ready to be done. I, too, have one in college, and one married, and okay, one in rehab (long story) so my house is down to two. I am not sure that I will ever be a empty nester
like you, so I would kind of look forward to that.


Cellentani-I brought a left lunch to school just this week! I won''t miss that either! I have had 4 kids, at 2 different schools, I remember those challenges! I love to do the meat and veggie thing two and
put them on the "big green egg'' for barbeque at night. My favorite thing. I love eating by the pool after 8 p.m. when it''s dark with the pool lights changing colors.


Junebug-it might not seem quite so sad for you come September, you might be glad by then! Does you daughter get to come home from school for weekends? My son came home more his freshman year,
and the first part of his sophmore year, but now he has a girlfriend and he doesn''t want to come home at all. He is my ''easy'' kid, so I really miss seeing him.
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YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!

But I''m a teacher, not a parent, so my reasons for being excited are completely different.
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Heck yes!!!!! I just want to sleep again... I am at work so early, and then running around all afternoon/evening trying to cook, clean, do laundry, work out, create lessons, look through assignments, etc.... It''s exhausting!! I just want to sleep in and NOT wake up to an alarm for 2 whole months!!!
 
luv2sparkle, you''re right, come September it probably won''t bother me too much...it will be kind of nice to sleep in a little, and not have to worry about all the back-to-school stuff. Now that I think about it, my summer is probably going to be pretty busy getting him ready for college! He''ll only be a little over an hour away, so I''ll still get to see him fairly often. But it will be a little lonely without him around. And my daughter is a plane flight away, so she''s not home that often. Ah well, I''ll survive...thank you for the nice words, you made me feel better!

Oh, and that is SO funny that your kids sold the lunches you made!
 
Junebug, here is what I like about it. A quiet house, no t.v. running 24/7. Not having other boys running through my house at all hours of the day and night. Lower food bills. Planning on eating something
later and having it actually be there when YOU want it. Alone time with hubby, so we can do whatever we want. Not having to share everything. When you go shopping, it gets to be for you. Clean bathrooms.
No one hogging my washer and dryers. No dirty socks anywhere. Clean bathroom mirrors.

I do miss them, but now when I see (the ones moved out) we just get to sit around and talk and laugh. The things they do no longer bug me, cuz they are doing them in there own house. I just get to enjoy
them. All of a sudden I can look at them with new eyes, and just like them. That is a great feeling.

My son, is about and hour to and hour and a half away. He is much more of a home body than my daughter. How funny is this: my DD was the most rebellious. I truly despaired of ever liking the girl.
There were times we would look at each other with a scowl and say ''I don''t like you'' at the same time! Since she got married she hasn''t lived more than a couple blocks away, and she is still homesick!
We will often say the same nice thing at the same time and she is so much like me it is scary. That just cracks me up. She used to call me ''Mother'', which I hated, now she refers to me as her ''Mommy".
I think God has a huge sense of humor!
 
Tuckins, yes-sleep blessed sleep..... can''t wait!
 
I''m a teacher. The last day of school is next Thursday. I wish we went another two weeks now instead of going back so early in August. It is so hot on the playground in August.
 
Date: 5/14/2010 11:02:04 PM
Author: Pink Tower
I''m a teacher. The last day of school is next Thursday. I wish we went another two weeks now instead of going back so early in August. It is so hot on the playground in August.
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Where do you live? My niece lives in Georgia, and they go back the first week of August... It''s so ridiculously hot then, I feel bad for those kids and teachers! Especially when the AC goes out, or they don''t have it at all!
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Tuckins,
Why, Georgia, of course!!! South, south, Georgia. Below the gnat line, as we say. Your glasses steam up when you step outside in August here. We also have a home in Atlanta. Atlanta is like the Poconos in comparison to South Georgia.
-Pink
 
I am actually counting down the days until the 2010-2011 year begins! That is what I am excited for!
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Pros...
No more packing lunches
No more trying to get the kids to get out of bed
No more worrying what they are going to wear
NO MORE HOMEWORK!!!

Cons...
The fighting of the siblings, I just cannot take it!
Paying the babysitter for a full day...blah
 
OMG yes! I get my husband - the nice, sweet, unstressed one - back!!
 
I can''t hardly wait.....no more uniforms, homework & alarm clocks [5]
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Time to visit family, be lazy and enjoy them full time.
 
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