We’re all in back to school mode around here. Are you? It seems to sneak up on us as we’re blazing through our summer and suddenly – it’s here. We’re doing all of the last minute preparations and working through our back to school and back to sports check lists.
But it’s not only my ten children that are heading back to school – two in college, three in high school, four in grade school and one in pre-school – but my schedule takes a change as well.
Here’s just a quick list I’m sure you can relate to on all the things we’ve been doing over the past few weeks in preparation for these first days of school.
- Make sure the uniforms fit. If they don’t, we check with siblings and friends to get what we need.
- Buying books.
- School supply shopping. (We all love getting those seemingly endless lists, don’t we?)
- Shoe check. Make sure those shoes fit!
- Physicals.
- Dental/orthodontist appointments (I like to avoid taking them out of school for these so I pack them all in just before the year starts.)
- Set up car pools.
- Haircuts.
- Paper work for each of the kids.
- Sports uniforms and equipment check.
- Sports practice schedules, including the two teams I’m coaching: girls kindergarten soccer and 3rd-grade volleyball.
- Summer reading books are being frantically finished.
- Stock the fridge.
- Prep for breakfasts and lunches.
- Wake up! I start two weeks out from the first day to start waking everyone a little earlier and a little earlier to get back on “school time.”
Just after I get everyone back in to the classroom, I’ll be scheduling my own hair cut, doctor, dentist and physical appointments. I encourage you to do the same! After all of the focus on your kids’ needs you do need to make sure you’re taken care of as well.
Happy 2008 – 2009 school year!