Summer's Past

Time for School....A time for us to wake up before the birds, eat breakfast in the car, scream a thousand times for the boys to brush their teeth.......How many days until summer??? Our late night watching the Olympics is replace with late night homework....Football, baseball, drama at school, football games, homecoming, TAKS, A.R.!!!!! OH MY
Sadly, the boys flip flops are being replaced with school shoes WITH SOCKS!!! Means more washing....beach towels replaced with back packs....shirts and gym shorts replaced with uniforms neatly tucked in ......sorta....
Now I have to ask, how do single working Mom's do it all? They are my hero's!!! I make a promise to myself every year around August to be more organized....The Walton's, Brady Bunch, My Three Son's, Leave it to Beaver....they did us NO favors!!! How is it that Momma Walton got up and had a three course breakfast for ALL three thousand of her children BEFORE school!!! I really attempt to be like that....Like June Cleaver, on Leave it to Beaver....Have you ever seen her dinner's??? Makes me hungry every time I watch them....So, what do I do, I put on my pearls and go to the freezer and realize it takes longer than 30 minutes to cook a meal that is FROZEN!!! So, I get out the frozen dinners and pop them the microwave and put them on our plates and fill the glasses with water and we all sit down to a wonderful burnt on the outside, frozen on the inside T.V. dinner...Only to have my boys laugh at me and ask why I'm wearing pearls with shorts and a tee shirt!!!
I have gone so far as to join Fly Lady!! It's a wonderful website for woman that need help organizing everything in their life.....I don't need help, I NEED someone to do it for me....I had to quit when I felt so much guilt from not being able to do the house work from ALL the emails you get from them.....I really buy into what they say about having a clean sink every night before you go to bed....so, I move all the dirty dishes over to the counter next to the sink....Might even get lucky and one of the dogs will lick the remaining dinner stuck on the dishes....less to do for me......
Gotta go, I think I need to join fly lady again and see what she wants me to do today....I'll bet I was supposed to already have made my bed...Oh, well, there's always tomorrow, besides I gotta sleep in it tonight.... one less thing on my list.....I think I'll go watch Mission Organization.....see what they have to offer me.....it's like watching an exercise video....you wish you were doing it....but not bad enough to actually do it......
Happy school year everyone....may your days be filled with papers, homework, schedules, sleepy heads, stress, and so on......so that you can fill the ever present "I'm about to blow" scenario I experience every day of the school career!!!!