First Day of School XIII

It's the night before the first day back to school.  Kids are rooting around desperately looking for ID cards on lanyards they were given a week ago, emptying backpacks and restocking them, fretting over outfits, and making the house a huge chaotic mess.  The shower has been in use non stop since 5pm, in 30 minute intervals, and I get the last one.  Good thing the water heater springs back from cold pretty quickly, not that in this heat it would matter anyway.

Everyone seems to have the bare minimum they need to go to school.  It's all that they will have until I get paid at the end of the month, unless some benevolent soul drops paper, folders, highlighters, notebooks, and the like off on my doorstep.  See, tomorrow is also first day back to work for me, and last month was no pay month.  My mortgage company is forgiving, and has worked out a payment plan we all can live with, but the electric/water/trash/sewer/etc. that is my city utility bill is long overdue, and I don't know how I can pay it.  The Gas Company sent the pink notice last month.  My bank account went overdrawn last month.  I'm just gritting my teeth and hoping for leniency until the 31st.  Come on, pay day!

Last year I had a kid in every level school this district runs.  One in elementary, one in middle, one in junior high, and then a freshman, two sophomores in the high school, and a senior attending school digitally.  This year, there is no one in the middle school, one in elementary, one in junior high, 3 in high school, and one attending digitally.  Back to school nights stink, as they usually fall one after the other after the other.  I attend the ones where they are promised extra credit, and miss the older kids if I can at all help it.  If they are bombing out later in the year, all the more reason to visit then.

As much as I am looking forward to some time without them in the house, the district I work for is starting quickly on the heels of theirs this year, so I get half a day of the end of summer with out them.  Not much relief, as hubby is supposed to be laid up after hernia surgery, which means I will be making lunch and dinner and cracking the whip when the kids get back from school to get them back on the homework and chores track.  Fun stuff.

So, enough complaining from me.  YAY for back to school!  Tomorrow, maybe I'll write about the reason I started this blog last yearish and where I hope to go with it from here on out.  I know I have more to talk about than MMO games that I play to keep my sanity.  The insanity here should be excellent blog fodder!

Until tomorrow...