Back to School

So school starts in 2 days....

I hate to say this because I absolutely love my daughter but thank goodness!

See we have our own little group of friends, more to us like an extension of our immediate families. Between 3 couples, we have 9 kids on a daily basis. THAT'S A LOT. A L O T. Their kids are like mine, mine like theirs, husbands too...Except for the, ya know, part.

Our days are filled with Mommmm, he said this, she did that, we're hungry we're bored, can we have a sleep over, she bleeding, I don't know, I didn't do it, Noooo, where's my shoes, why not?.... Mommmmmm.......

So needless to say Kathy, Hope & I are ready to pull whatever little amount of hair that hasn't been turned gray and already pulled by us this summer, out. We have a little dry erase board on Kathy's fridge with the number of days constantly being updated to show us just how much time we have to hold on to the little bit of sanity we left.

When I was about 8 & my sister was 7, the Mom's on my block started having a brunch on the first day of school which they claim they did for quite a few years. I never understood why they would do this or why they were always so damn giddy on the first day of school. I always thought this tradition to be weird & kinda mean. They were always silly when we arrived home from school the first day, all smiles, all laughy. I never knew why.... till now.

According to sources I will leave un-named, ( my mother ) that brunch was accompanied by a few (yeah, right, more like one per mother) bottles of champagne, ya know for Mimosa's.. (again riiiiiiiiiight) to have with "brunch".

The way I look at it, we got on the bus, they each popped their own bottle, yelled hooray & walking arm & arm up the block drank directly from their own bottle while congratulating one another for not murdering any of us over the summer. Maybe they did the walk like the Monkeys, foot over foot. There never was any food, just the bubbly....That's how I picture it anyways.

So I decided that you know what, I think we deserve a "brunch"....

We made it with 9 kids, no deaths, no major injuries, we took them places & managed to bring them all home every time without losing any of them in the process of the outings. We all now have to use gray covering hair dye, have black circles under our eyes, not from make up from yesterday, but from lack of sleep, we have done dishes for 20 extra people at least once a week in our own houses, we have learned how to pack a car in 10 minutes with meals for 9 kids, 6 adults, including to infants in that total. I think we deserve a "brunch".

So if you are looking for me on September 2nd around 9am - 3pm... I will hopefully be at Kathy's, with Hope having a quiet, uninterrupted, silly, giddy BRUNCH!