Do you hear that?
Listen really carefully.
That’s right… Nothing.
There is nothing to hear as I sit here at my kitchen table. Well, the cat is snoring pretty loudly.
That’s right. There are no screams, no bickering, no fighting, no annoying video games, no one yelling “MOOOOOM!” Nothing.
I can whisper and hear it. I can even hear myself think and… and have a complete thought without someone asking me for a snack or if I think that black snake in the sandbox would make a good belt.
And why is it all quiet around me?
Did I manage to find gypsies willing to take the children on the road with them? Oh no, something better happen.
SCHOOL!
Summer break is over and it’s back to school. Oh my God, it’s probably wrong to be this happy about the kids going back but I don’t care. I am giddy.
Giddy.
Well, you saw my happy dance.
This summer has been insane. Just insane. I don’t even know where to begin. I mean this summer stopped my blogging. That’s crazy to me. I just couldn’t find the time or the energy to write. There were so many stories that I wanted to tell but couldn’t because I was playing referee or making someone something to eat or cleaning up mud or sucking down coffee to survive the sleep deprivation caused by a boy child waking me in the middle of the night to tell me his penis was itchy due to the fact he got poison ivy all over it.
It was non-stop balls to the wall, my liver begging me for a break, daily survival.
And I did it.
I survived. I think. Well, I do have 6 more gray hairs on my head, a constant dull headache and darker under eye circles but I suppose that just comes naturally with motherhood.
So now, I sit for like the first time in 3 months in silence. My personal space once again my own and my bathroom time once again just between me and the toilet without a child wanting to see my poop color.
School happened just in the nick of time. One more week of the kids home and I probably would be on the phone asking if the local loony bin would accept cash or credit cards for an extended stay.
I love those kids but it’s time for a little space between us.
Sure our fall schedule scares me and there will be 4 kids who will need homework help nightly but that’s ok. I’m sure I have some brain cells left. It’s going to an interesting school year and know that I say, God bless the teachers of my children.
And as for blogging, I got stories to tell and hopefully time to tell them.
It’s good to be back in the school routine.
So freaking good.
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