Building A Moat Might Be Overkill, But...
Back to school! Back to school! Woo Hoo Hoo Hoo HOOOOOO!
Remember when this used to be a sad occasion? Oh, my babies are growing up? Boo hoo? So sad? No?
Oh yeah, that's right. That went out the second day of my oldest's Kindergarten year. In fact, last year, wasn't I doing Riverdance in the school parking lot?
After the bickering and sibling torture of the last two weeks, let's just say that instead of Riverdance this year, I'm going to race home and start digging a moat so they can't get in without swearing allegiance to the Queen (Hello! That's me!) and promising to uphold the Laws of The Queendom.
Whoops, a little Riverdance just slipped out. I looked like Snoopy from Peanuts doing the happy dance.
Look at them. Just...wow. They keep getting bigger. I'm reaching deep into my soul here, and...
Nope, still happy it is the first day of school! Now, about that moat...
Comments
Okay, this was just what I needed to hear because MAYBE just this morning I counted and re-counted the number of days until Savannah's first day of kindergarten while fielding the question that makes my eye twitch, "WHAT ARE WE DOING FOR KIDS TODAY?".
Bee-u-tiful family, btw. ;)
Posted by: Lena | August 15, 2007 9:22 AM
To heck with the moat. Drag out all the food you want to eat, but the kids won't because asparagus is yucky and blue cheese smells like nasty and butternut squash soup looks like something gross and party ...
Cheers!
Posted by: almost vegetarian | August 15, 2007 10:34 AM
They just get bigger every darn day. Tell them to cut it out!
Posted by: Denise | August 15, 2007 10:54 AM
I almost peed at the thought of you doing the snoopy happy dance! Never met you but had a very clear vision of you doing that dance. I don't dread the first day of school either - one less meal a day I have to plan.
Posted by: Kim | August 15, 2007 10:59 AM
OMG. My kids are in that miserable bickering summer stage too. And school doesn't start for them UNTIL SEPTEMBER!!!!!! JENNY! SEPTEMBER!
Somebody send some booze. Stat.
Posted by: HG | August 15, 2007 11:12 AM
You have such beautiful kids! They're going to be heartbreakers!
Enjoy your quiet!
Posted by: jaime | August 15, 2007 12:20 PM
My oldest started Kindergarten last month. Before she started I was excited because I thought that the fighting between kids would stop. Nah. Not so much. They just cram all the fighting into the time before and after school. Cheers!
Your kids are beautiful, by the way. Although I'm sure you already knew that.
Posted by: Heather | August 15, 2007 12:32 PM
They look like they were pretty excited, too!
Posted by: Bethiclaus | August 15, 2007 1:59 PM
I love you post! I was cracking up because about 10 minutes ago, I posted one of the "boo hoo my baby is growing up" posts about my daughter's first day of pre-school that is looming before me.
It will probably be next year - or maybe even Christmas break this year - when I'm writing the "woohoo!!" post :)
Beautiful kids!
Posted by: Emily | August 16, 2007 6:22 AM
And THIS is why I love you.
HAHA. HAAAAAAAAA.
Posted by: Y | August 16, 2007 8:22 AM
On *my* blog, I played the Hallelujah Chorus on the first day back to school.
I'm just saying.
Posted by: Kristie | August 16, 2007 9:34 AM
Tell them to quit the growing up.
Those are some gorgeous kids there btw.
Posted by: chris | August 16, 2007 10:03 AM
What a beautiful picture! I love first day pix, as long as I'm not in them. Alas, I teach, so I'm always posed in a few "first day" shots. Yours are soooo cute!
Posted by: Daisy | August 16, 2007 11:50 AM
Bee-yoo-te-ful children!!
Posted by: Wisconsin Mommy | August 16, 2007 12:43 PM
Lol!
Posted by: Mom of a Munchkin | August 16, 2007 2:06 PM
So cute! My daughter just went to her aunt's house for the first time to be baby sat and she started crying and I almost started crying. I wanted to run out and snatch her back and keep her at home with me all day. I can't wait until I can actually enjoy the days away from her.
Posted by: Heather | August 16, 2007 2:08 PM
Those are lovely kids and a moat is just what you, I mean they need. ;)
Posted by: still standing | August 16, 2007 8:13 PM
I homeschool, so if I dug a moat, I would trap my kids in with me. Damn.
Your kids are adorable all dressed up for their first day!
Posted by: mel from freak parade | August 16, 2007 10:19 PM
School doesn't come until the 27th. That is 9 days, 4 hours and 7 minutes.
I'll help you dig your moat if you'll help me install my mommy alarm system, complete with buckets of goo and slippery marbles.
Posted by: OMSH | August 17, 2007 2:55 PM
You have beautiful children.
Cheers, to a new school year.
Posted by: Jenn | August 20, 2007 8:26 PM
They're absolutely darling! I'm glad you're Riverdancing. I have one child and he's starting his last year of preschool before k'garten. So I'm all 'bout da boo-hoo.
Posted by: SURCIE | August 21, 2007 7:12 AM
Funny- I can already- relate to this and my son is only 14 months old. We are visiting my in-laws and parents at the moment (in a different country than we live in) and when my mom or mother-in-law take him out - I exhale deeply. I worry that this make me a badmom ( like baddog! doing something wrong) but then I'm happy to see him when he return- so not so bad right?
Ariella
Posted by: Ariella Kaufman | August 22, 2007 2:51 PM
Your kids are gorgeous!
Zoe is only 2 years old... and I am longingly waiting for the first day of school. The program she's going to doesn't have the first day until September 10th!
Posted by: Colleen | August 24, 2007 5:24 PM
I have twleve more days until mine go back...
Remember when you were a kid and it took f-o-r-e-v-e-r for Christmas to come?
As an adult I relieve this feeling every August until THEY GO BACK TO SCHOOL.
Posted by: Leanne | August 25, 2007 4:31 PM
I felt the same last year when I sent my oldest off to Kindergarten. This year, school cannot start soon enough - 1 more day!
Posted by: margaret | August 27, 2007 3:27 PM
Trouble? Them?
Nah. They're too beautiful to be such trouble.
Posted by: Matthew | August 27, 2007 10:09 PM
"Now that's funny, I don't care who ya are!"
~Larry the Cable Guy.
Seriously, I am counting the days until Pickle heads out...
Posted by: Beth | August 29, 2007 2:55 PM