My kids go back to school tomorrow!

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PlacentiaSoccerMom · #1 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:04 am

peacock2121 · #2 Post by **peacock2121** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:40 am

I remember when my mom used to feel that way.

I never got it.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #3 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:22 am

It was nice having the kids home, but we were so busy during the break that I didn't get things done, plus they were fighting towards the end.

Jeff goes to work today and they go to school, so I will have the house to myself for the first time in a more than a week.

a1mamacat · #4 Post by **a1mamacat** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:29 am

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:It was nice having the kids home, but we were so busy during the break that I didn't get things done, plus they were fighting towards the end.

Jeff goes to work today and they go to school, so I will have the house to myself for the first time in a more than a week.

Yup, you love 'em, but a week home is quite long enough LOL.

Bob Juch · #5 Post by **Bob Juch** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:53 am

I believe that children and arsenic are best taken in small doses.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #6 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:12 am

a1mamacat wrote:
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:It was nice having the kids home, but we were so busy during the break that I didn't get things done, plus they were fighting towards the end.

Jeff goes to work today and they go to school, so I will have the house to myself for the first time in a more than a week.
Yup, you love 'em, but a week home is quite long enough LOL.

Exactly!

peacock2121 · #7 Post by **peacock2121** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:35 am

I didn't mean that I don't get it as a mom, believe me, I get it.

I didn't get it when I was a kid.

I thought it was just grand having us all under foot.

earendel · #8 Post by **earendel** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:34 am

peacock2121 wrote:I didn't mean that I don't get it as a mom, believe me, I get it.

I didn't get it when I was a kid.

I thought it was just grand having us all under foot.

I never got it as a child, either. But then I was one of those freaky kids who WANTED to be in school rather than on vacation.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #9 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:50 am

peacock2121 wrote:I didn't mean that I don't get it as a mom, believe me, I get it.

I didn't get it when I was a kid.

I thought it was just grand having us all under foot.

My kids had fun during the break. Maddie got to hang out with her Mock Trial team , they didn't win State by the way, and we did some things as a family. Emma got to do things without her sister and caught up on some homework.

They know I tired though.

This morning, I have been working on my mother's taxes. Of course she isn't home to answer my questions about her goofy records...

Deaf Mini · #10 Post by **Deaf Mini** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:49 am

It's funny--I enjoyed having a chance to sleep in for a week, and today the weather is so nice, I wished I could have let the kids stay home. But Mini-me is getting the Attendance NastyGrams after missing a week to go to Ireland. And a Monday for the Super Bowl. And a Monday for some other trip. And maybe 3 days where he was actually sick.

So, no joy.

MarleysGh0st · #11 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:18 am

Deaf Mini wrote:It's funny--I enjoyed having a chance to sleep in for a week, and today the weather is so nice, I wished I could have let the kids stay home. But Mini-me is getting the Attendance NastyGrams after missing a week to go to Ireland.

And???

Are we going to get a second-hand trip report from that?

Deaf Mini · #12 Post by **Deaf Mini** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:22 am

They went to Ireland. It rained. They saw lambs being born. And castles.

Then Steve took Mini-me on a side trip to London to give him a break from his cousin (Demon Child is definitely a small doses kind of kid) and they did all the touristy landmarks and saw Spamalot and he goes around clicking together things and riding an imaginary horse. We're raising him right!

The end.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #13 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:27 am

Deaf Mini wrote:It's funny--I enjoyed having a chance to sleep in for a week, and today the weather is so nice, I wished I could have let the kids stay home. But Mini-me is getting the Attendance NastyGrams after missing a week to go to Ireland. And a Monday for the Super Bowl. And a Monday for some other trip. And maybe 3 days where he was actually sick.

So, no joy.

Won't they just let you call in advance so you won't get the Attendance NastyGrams?

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #14 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:28 am

Deaf Mini wrote:They went to Ireland. It rained. They saw lambs being born. And castles.

Then Steve took Mini-me on a side trip to London to give him a break from his cousin (Demon Child is definitely a small doses kind of kid) and they did all the touristy landmarks and saw Spamalot and he goes around clicking together things and riding an imaginary horse. We're raising him right!

The end.

We bought coconuts and hollowed them about for the girls so they could pretend to be Patsy.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #15 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:29 am

Deaf Mini wrote: We're raising him right!

Yes you are!

MarleysGh0st · #16 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:29 am

Deaf Mini wrote:Then Steve took Mini-me on a side trip to London to give him a break from his cousin (Demon Child is definitely a small doses kind of kid) and they did all the touristy landmarks and saw Spamalot and he goes around clicking together things and riding an imaginary horse. We're raising him right!

Huzzah!

And I love how a side trip from Ireland to London can be just "taking a break" in your family!

Deaf Mini · #17 Post by **Deaf Mini** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:30 am

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:
Deaf Mini wrote:It's funny--I enjoyed having a chance to sleep in for a week, and today the weather is so nice, I wished I could have let the kids stay home. But Mini-me is getting the Attendance NastyGrams after missing a week to go to Ireland. And a Monday for the Super Bowl. And a Monday for some other trip. And maybe 3 days where he was actually sick.

So, no joy.
Won't they just let you call in advance so you won't get the Attendance NastyGrams?

They knew in advance, but there is this automatic feature that kicks in at 7 absences, since I think the max is 21 before they just automatically fail you. They let you know when you are a third of the way to trouble.

His teachers had no problem with him going and even told him to go to the Tower while he was in London.