Playing Hookie

So we are only in the last week of September and I am already done doing this whole school-real-schedule-everyday thing.  No really.  My calendar is so full up that when I try to make a play date I have to change the date 3 times before my brain can come up with a two hour window in my overwhelming schedule.

Listen to this:
Monday: Speech, mommy-and-me class, therapy, Swim class
Tuesday: preschool, Sports camp
Wednesday: Speech, mommy-and-me class, kid class, dance class, swim class (i hate wednesdays)
Thursday: Preschool, swim
Friday: Drive mom up the wall because we are all so exhausted from the week.

And forget tying to fit in anything that looks remotely like it might have to do with me for a moment.  Forget that I still have trainings, and events to plan, and emails to send, and maybe a phone call every blue moon.  Or forbid, a mommy night out?!  Thats usually the first thing that gets cut from my schedule.

Me time?  What's that?

How many kids do I have?  And how old are they?  Yeah.  The oldest?  Not even 4!  So how the heck did I manage to get myself into this crazy schedule?  And the thing that really bugs me is the fact that I can't really cut anything out.  Well, I mean I can.  But the things I want to cut out, we really need.  Like Speech... and therapy.

Why is it that the real stuff is the most frustrating?  I don't know about you but I really hate getting up early.  I mean really.  (except, of course, if we are getting up really early so that we can get to Disney World at a decent hour, because everyone knows that the best time to do the kingdom is as early in the morning as possible and if you only have a weekend then you should be getting your drowsy childrens in the car no later then 5am... I wanna go to Disney World.  But I digress. )  And the worse thing about getting up early is that my kids hate it just as much as I do.  Except the boy.  He's up at 6 like clockwork everyday.

I could get up early for that!

But today we are playing hookie and it's a quarter to nine and my youngest is still sleeping.  Not to mention that the other two only got up 20 minutes ago!  Yeah, that never happens on a Saturday.  But I realized something as my alarm was going off at 6 (i.e. my son) and my daughter was still snoring away through the noise,  some times the best thing to do is to do nothing.

Don't do anything!  Just throw caution to the wind and relax!  Forget your schedule, forget the projects.  Just have a day to play hookie.  There is already so many responsibilities on your children these days that if we don't teach them to give themselves a break they won't and then they will turn into these stressed out-overworked-overachievers that have a meltdown every time they see a B on their report card...  I never understood those people.

Two B's?!  Death!

....

Ok! Fine!  In actuality, the reason we are staying home today is because if I had to get up early one more time just so I could spend the first 45 minutes of my day fighting with my kids to do everything from going to the bathroom to brushing their hair I would be very likely to have a nervous break down.

And that, I really don't have time for!

Antenella