This week has been busy with getting ready for back-to-school, both for the kids and myself. I still have yet to write my syllabus for this semester but I found out the class I’m teaching is on Monday nights, so that means the first class won’t meet until Sept 13. So that gives me 2 more weeks of procrastination! Hurray!
That being said, we are all ready to go back to school. All of us. Henry had been perfectly lovely all summer long and I was starting to feel a sense of sadness about his return to school. Then all hell broke loose last week and we had one of those weeks where I was hoarse at the end of the day because I had been yelling so much. Here are some of the things I was yelling/thinking last week:
“Do not pretend like you are peeing or pooping on people!”
“Do not lick your brother !”
Could I get a urinal installed in our home?
If I can’t get a urinal, perhaps I should just re-do the bathrooms with urine-colored tile & grout.
Actually, why don’t we just cut out the middleman altogether (the toilet) and just have the kids pee into a hole in the floor.
“If you two keep fighting over those ZsuZsu pets I am going to throw them in the trash and squirt something yucky on top of them!”
“You need to wear pants in this house. At all times.”
Also, I have finished a few books lately, they were all good but the one I most recommend is “Red Hook Road” by Ayelet Waldman. I have never written an email to an author/celebrity before and I so loved the book and the depiction of Maine in it that I felt compelled to write the author and tell her so and SHE WROTE ME BACK!! It really is a lovely book. Here are a few others I recently finished:
The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
3 comments:
Two weeks of kids in school and not having to be teaching...so jealous!
I wish we started in September!
Today was crazy for me. In all honesty, I hate the first days of school. I eventually like it when I finally know kids' names, personalities, and establish a routine.
I'm sure you'll have some good "quotes" once you take Rex home!
ha - sounds familiar! It is sooo nice to hear that I'm not the only one who has to say those things at home too :)
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