So, here we are, less than a month until school starts again and moms across the country are secretly doing the hand-jive/macarena/Tootsie roll in anticipation.  Am I the only backwards mom on the planet? Back to school does not=back to sanity for this mom.  Back to school means homework (which means more whining), it means checking folders, signing slips, remembering this, remembering–wandering ramblings–did you catch that in my tag line?  I don’t do remembering very well.

The carefree days of summer are coming to an end, and in this house the only ones jumping for joy that school is coming are the two kids who should be ugghing and boohooing.  Don’t get me wrong, having kids who love going to school is pretty amazing.  I love that they love it!  They love to learn, to see their friends, and see what new adventures await them.  I love to see the excitement, and for the first week I’ll be supermom.  Juggling folders and signing slips will be my new life venture-and I’ll do so flawlessly…for about a week, maybe two tops.  Then I will forget a day, I’ll misplace the slip, or forget to send a note that they need to go to xyz after school.  The kids will want a cold lunch, at 8:27pm the night before, when our fridge consists of milk, leftover tacos, one questionable apple, a piece of string cheese and some brown lettuce (not some newfangled fancy form of greens..the regular old leaf lettuce that didn’t get used up in time and is now slimy brown and stinky). From that point on the excitement of the new school year will be gone for me and I’ll just be surfing pinterest for memory enhancers, or wine racks.