School Holidays Are Almost Over

I love and adore my children, really I do.  But enough is enough.

I see so many mothers on FB lamenting the end of the holidays and the return of their darlings to school.  ARE THEY FOR REAL?

I have fun with my boys, we've been to parks, and swimming, and movies, and visited friends... but they (and I) are now going stir crazy.    There's only so many times you can watch movies (and of course they want to repeatedly watch THE SAME ONE) and only so many things to do at the local park, no matter how fabulous the park is.

Am I the only mother on the planet who freely admits to looking forward to the kids going back to school so that they are stimulated, I am able to do grown up stuff, and we ALL actually have something to talk about and share with each other?

Does this mean that I'm not a good mother?  Or that I don't adore my kids?  NO.  It means that I'm honest.  Kids are freaking HARD WORK.   Cleaning up with them in the house is like swimming upstream in a waterfall.   And they get bored.  School is designed to allow them to learn and explore without me having to answer "Why?" thousands of times in a day, or have to referee yet another dispute over whose turn it is to do ANYTHING.

I swear they could argue about who gets the most oxygen, some days.


Only another week to go, and I take them back to their school and hand them over to their teachers.

Oh crap, now I have to organise their school bags, and books in readiness.  *sigh*

Happily Ever After

I got my fairytale, and it was just how we wanted it to be.  We had a beautiful, simple, intimate ceremony with our children and a couple of close friends and family members.  The day was relaxed, enjoyable and the best part was that I married my best friend.

Now back to reality. Due to circumstances he is again overseas and I am once more missing my man.  This is just a small bump in the road compared to all that we have conquered previously, and all the happiness that awaits us.

And of course, my shoes were FABULOUS!