- My kids are back in school this fine Tuesday after being home for ten days during the county wide Spring Break.
- I’m trying to keep the glee to a minimum.
- Would it be wrong to have a champagne toast as the bus pulls away from the curb?
- Don’t get me wrong. I love my kids. I love love love having them with me. But I also love love love sending them away for a minimum of six hours a day, five days a week. If I could, right now, I’d plant a big, sloppy, wet kiss on my children’s Public School Education. Thank you, oh thank you, MDCPS, for giving me back my sanity. Muah.
- I was cheated out of my last thirty minutes of sleep this morning when my teen walked in to my bedroom a little before 6 am. “MOM!” I’d forgotten to put her P.E. clothes in the dryer, but that wasn’t why she’d come in. Something alive was in her bedroom and had later followed her in to the bathroom. “You mean like the birds in the roof?” I asked. “No, I heard it walking on the carpet.” She was still in her pajamas and had to get ready in the bathroom she couldn’t go in to because some THING was going to eat her face. “I think I heard it burrowing.” WTF? Minutes later said creature emerged from its hiding place behind the garbage can. It was a roach. The flying kind. Which coincidentally is the CHARGING kind. As I approached, emitting my own set of squeals, sneaker held aloft, instead of running away from me like any normal God fearing roach, it ran directly AT me. I backed up, I missed, I dodged, eventually splatting the thing against the running boards. Phew. Crisis averted. I was actually never happier to see a cockroach in my life, if it had been a mouse, I’m pretty sure I would’ve had a coronary.
- But STILL. Roaches. Blech.
- We have roughly two hundred empty plastic eggs stashed in the garage from this year’s Easter festivities. This translates to about five pounds of candy in my pantry. Sometimes. It calls to me. Make it stop.
- The Easter bunny doesn’t visit my house, but he (she?) does visit my sister to leave her two girls charming little baskets of goodies on Sunday morning. When we went over there for lunch and egg hunting, this travesty of justice was brought to my attention by my precocious niece. “The Easter bunny doesn’t come to your house? But that isn’t fair. He comes to my house. He brings us stuff. He’s real, why wouldn’t he come to yours, huh? Why do you think that is?” I really didn’t how to respond, so I shrugged and told her to go eat some candy. But my seven-year-old assured me later, that the Easter bunny would definitely swing by next year, now that my son was aware of his existence and had become a true believer. “He only comes, Mom, if you really believe!”
- Don’t I have enough hoaxes to juggle with Santa and the Tooth Fairy? Do I really have shoulder the responsibility for another magical fib? I’m all for imagination and the colorful fantasies of childhood, but I really hate being a liar.
- Also, giant rabbits are scary.
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Oh, Randomness, how I missed you?
So sorry to hear that the candy from inside the eggs are beckoning you. We got some plastic eggs that have a glow-in-the-dark band on them that you find with a special flash light. But that’s nothing compared to searching for jelly beans. The rule is that they are supposed to be in plain sight. That doesn’t mean that they are hard to find.
Thanks for your randomness,
We still have a couple of weeks before our spring break. I’m looking forward to sleeping in and am keeping my fingers crossed for nice weather. If it rains all week I may just lose what’s left of my sanity. Throw some orange juice in that champagne toast and you’ve got a perfectly acceptable mimosa. Those are okay for breakfast, right? right?
Roaches totally skeeve me out, even more than mice.
No Easter Bunny! How did you manage to avoid that one all these years?
No Easter Bunny? How did you manage that? Princess Nagger was thinking the Easter Bunny was like Santa – she kept hoping he’s bring her a Nintendo DS. I told her I got a message from the Easter Bunny and he told her to take it up with Santa, he’s just the candy dude.
Ewwww! Roaches creep me out more than mice do, but it is neck-and-neck. Wonder if that roach heard about your recycled post of one of his relatives and decided to give you a rude awakening?
Princess Nagger’s school doesn’t do any sort of ‘Spring Break’ – don’t know why, though they were supposed to have a 4-day weekend for Easter but had to use yesterday as a snow make-up day. You could totally drink some champagne to celebrate this morning – Elle had the same idea I did about making a mimosa!
LMBO about the champaigne toast at the bus stop!! We’re still on spring break and I totally understand where you’re coming from. School system take me away!! lol
It is absolutely appropriate to throw a champagne brunch after the kids go back to school. Better yet, come over. I make a mean margarita.
Your daughter can’t put her OWN pe clothes in the dryer? Huh?
Give your son a copy of “Hogfather” by Terry Pratchett. All those mystical beings will hilariously go bye-bye.
Champagne? I was ready to mix up a pitcher of martinis this morning, and MY kid was in another state for the entire break.
Oh, I definitely think champagne is in order. I only had Danny home for 4 days, and I am celebrating his return to school like it’s Mardi Gras. And I am wondering how I will survive summer. Scary thought.
I know what you mean about juggling mythological creatures. So far, I have done a pretty piss poor job with the Tooth Fairy. And it is a miracle my kids didn’t catch on about the Easter Bunny this year. I mean, I hid the eggs outside after they woke up (what? there’s no way I was going to get up early to do it. I need my sleep) so Bil had to close the blinds in the family room so they wouldn’t see me. Then, the rest of the day, Bil and I slipped up no less than 320 times. Good thing my kids don’t actually listen to a word I say.
I barely made it through Spring Break this year. The weather is always crappy here during break so I can’t throw them outside much!
I think we should all get an “I survived Spring Break 2010″ award!!
The Easter Bunny brings gifts instead of lots of candy to our house. Turbo needs no help in the turboing department and Bruiser can’t have any candy yet. the silly bunny did bring Turbo a bb gun though. Gonna have to have a talk with the bunny. Any way enjoy your champagne and relax a bit until the kids are set free this afternoon.
BAH! Effing roaches. The flying ones are the worst.
Happy Randon!
My kids are 15 to 22 and they still demand the Easter bunny appears. And all that candy in the house is mesmorizing. I have to say no to all of it because I am incapable of any restraint once I start. It took me years to realize this. So maybe you should consider yourself lucky you’re not on the Bunny Trail and keep it that way…
We have spring break in 2 weeks. I am already dreading it. I figure absence makes the heart grow fonder and I am so much fonder of my children when they spend 6 hours a day being educated by someone else. They are in different schools so they can’t fight with each other during the day.
The Easter Bunny comes to our house. He actually hides plastic eggs throughout the house so the kids can look for them. Of course, he then has to remember where he left them so the dog doesn’t get them.
Didn’t the roach realize that he counts as wildlife so he belongs outside of the house? This is a discussion I occasionally have to have with a lost mouse.
I didn’t do Easter baskets this year as my kids are getting too old for that, and I’m so glad cuz otherwise I’d have candy calling to me too, and I hate it when it does that cuz I can never resist. I hope you have the strength to resist the call of your candy.
I think I’d prefer mice over roaches. I have this major phobia about roaches. Well, all bugs, really. We get box elder bugs every year and I hate those things.
Have a great Tuesday!
I’m willing to drink champagne with anyone who understands the value of sending their children away for a portion of the day. I’ll bring the bonbons.
My SIL had to make a special “Bunny Portal” so the damn rabbit could get into her house. My nephew finally wondered why they don’t do a special thing like they do for Santa. Her solution? A magic hat. Because that’s where bunnies come from, right? Damn, she’s good.
I agree with the giant rabbits… really creepy. I in no way forced my petrified son to sit on said bunny’s lap for any amount of time… in fact I have pictures of all the play group kids huddled around the easter bunny and my son, on the other side of the room, curled up in his chair holding tight to the little stuffed rabbit they gave him (out of pure pity, of course). In fact he is so terrified of Santa, the Easter Bunny, and any other fictional holiday character we just go ahead and tell them they are not real to help preserve his sanity (at least until a later age).
The cockroach would have sent me right over the edge. Yuk! *shudder*
We don’t focus that much on the bunny either. Mostly it is all about finding the eggs and then the girls rehide the eggs all day long.
Our spring break ended today as well and even though Cole and Bella only go to kindergarten for 3 hours a day, it was still a nice break to just have the little ones to look after. I went to Costco with them and it felt so freeing to only have 2 kids to look after rather than 4.
We have so much Easter candy as well. And I’m trying to get back to healthy eating today…I think maybe I should just eat the candy to get rid of it and start the diet next week.
Our spring break is thankfully over too. I am glad I no longer have to hear the word “mom” fifty million times a day, now only 10 million, but oh it was so nice not to have to wake everyone up and nag, nag, nag to get to school on time. I’m already counting the days to summer vacation.
Roaches, yuck, but way better than rodents.
I am soooo with you on having the kids home and then sending them BACK!
All of your talk aboutEast candy makes me want to go crack open that box of chocolate and start eating!
Great Random!
Roaches and mice terrify me. I don’t have roaches, but I did have a mouse problem in my garage all winter long. My husband caught about 20 of them. And there’s a giant raccoon living underneath my house. I have to get the vermin people out here.
Forgot to say that my backyard is half forested.
If having a party celebrating the end of spring break & the return to school is wrong? I don’t want to be right. Last week was horrifying for our house and it will take me a month to recuperate. Plus? Now I’m sick. So I feel ya.
Over here, the thing to fear is spiders. They get big. They get fast. They get even.
Oh, how I love your random Tuesdays! The attack roach was the bestest. WTF? Doesn’t the stupid roach know that you’re bigger? He’s dumb, and evolutionarily he deserved to die.
Honestly, two roach stories in a row? That’s freaking me out! (Just like the mice that moved into our garage this winter….)
Hahaha, you have me giggling out loud
I think champagne is warranted, just wait until you’re out of sight. And hide the evidence. Maybe behind the candy. And while you’re by the candy…
I’m on day five or six (I’ve lost count) of Spring Break myself and we are having yet another Easter Egg hunt today with half-price candy because I bought a bunch of over-priced dye-free candy that no one will eat.
Yesterday we went on a hike and saw two copperheads, multiple ticks and one child lolled in poison ivy. Tonight we are supposed to camp out in the back yard.
Maybe it will rain?
Seeing that you have made it to the other side of Spring Break gives me hope.
And I do so need that hope as I hear mine fighting yet again over the Wii controllers…
We just found a roach in our bathroom. I think it’s the weather. We randomly have a roach about once every 6 months in the bathroom. I don’t know where they come from but I don’t like it.
You would think that those roaches would be extint, the way they don’t have the sense to fear anything. I’m not scared of them, actually they make me mad for having the stupidity of coming into MY house!
I so agree with you on the fantasies of santa, et al. lol. We’re always preaching honesty and here we are…lying to them for years, lol. Ironic.
Roaches don’t really freak me out, but I’d probably make an exception for the flying kind.
This was actually our best break so far – hoping Summer is this good! The rhythm was much better, and last nite and this morning were a nitemare of trying to squeeze all those 10 million ‘moms’ into only a few hours. Ugh. Can I come over if I bring the champagne to your curb?? Enjoy your quiet!