School's OUT!

Yippee! Hooray! School's Out! For me, that means: no more dragging myself out of bed to make pancakes that no one likes; no more scrambling around the kitchen making lunches that no one eats; no more searching under the bed/couch/toybox/dirtyclothesbin for W's homework sheet/library book; no more dragging M out of bed and enduring her kicking and pouting and refusing to get in the van to take A to school or no more dragging M out of bed and having her go totally boneless and yet again refuse to get in the van to take A to school; much, much more housecleaning and cooking; much, much more dealing with mud/water/sand/salamanders/toads/frogs/bugs in the house; and packing up for our trip to see the Grandparents this summer. For the kids it means: yay! TV all day! So far W has watched 4 hours of the Discovery Channel's "When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions" (at least it's educational) and approximately 3 hours of Spongebob (it teaches social skills? Yeah, that's what I'll tell myself). I've told them that for today they can watch all the TV they want but tomorrow they're mine. School's out also means staying up late to look at the stars; cooking about 1 million s'mores with Daddy;hunting for salamanders/frogs/bugs/mudholes/sand; and a big trip on an airplane to see the Grandparents. Let the fun begin!