The Night Before School Starts........

Everyone's new clothes are hung in the closet...drawers full of new socks and underwear...

Sparkling shoes ready to be worn...Outfit picked out and ready to slip into...

(For in my house we don't wear any new clothes until school starts)

All supplies are ready and lunch-money given...

Mom's smilin' and countin' the hours...Back to routine!

No more staying up late, with me coming out after midnight to say 'turn that stupid tv down'...

No more calling the house at 11am, just to have a tired voice answer because I woke them up...

Although I'm floating on a cloud of maternal ecstacy because my house will (somewhat) be mine again

 I realize it means my babies are growing up as this new school year starts.

~Syd will be graduating and entering 'adulthood' (HA!)~

~Tyler will be loaded down with 'advanced' school work and headed towards dual-enrollement~

~Hunter is in the midst of puberty and the hellacious hormones that accompany it~

~Spencer is a bundle of nerves as he wonders if his 4th grade teacher will yell at lot~

There will be lots of changes as this new year starts...It's a bittersweet occasion.

If you're a mom, then you know what I mean.

So lemme ask you this...is it wrong that I was offering Tylenol PM's to my children with their dinner???

Please don't judge me...

As I was JUST trying to help them get a jumpstart on a good nights sleep.....