Busymom.net: The era keeps ending

Tuesday, May 6

Busy.

Blah, blah, blah-biddy blah.

Am boring even myself with the litany of things that could be the answer to, "What have I been doing?"

Those of you without kids would be pondering how you'd get these few minutes of your life back if I wrote about it.

Those of you with young kids would be thinking, "Wow, I'm glad I'm not that old", and, "I just can't relate", with a side of, "My kids won't ever have that much to do because I don't believe in organized activities."

To the above: Think what you will, but, insane scheduling happens anyway as they get older, and I wouldn't trade it for the world.

Those of you with grown kids would be all, "Buck up, it's only grade school", or, "HA! Better you than me."

With that, we are still buried in end of the year school activities and sports interspersed with the handing out of $20 bills here and there for "thank you gifts" for teachers, coaches, janitors, crossing guards, baristas, dog-walkers, cashiers, ice-cream scoopers, the lady in the corner over there and Lord only knows who else.

I want a roll of twenties packaged like Post-It Notes where they kind of stick to each other and pop up as you need them.

Busy Girl is also rapidly racking up "lasts" of her grade school career, with the last actual school day for her this Thursday.

The volleyball tournament was last night, we finished a somewhat disappointing third.

It was also the last time she'd wear a sports uniform for her school.

If you've been with me for a while, you know that marks the end of a lot of of sports, too.

Even though there's so much ahead of her, I'm still finding it hard to process how 9 years of school has gone by for her when I remember where I sat, what I was wearing and who we talked to when we went for her kindergarten screening test.

We have two other children and I think I'm going to be able to stop and appreciate their grade school years a little more now that I'm at this point with Busy Girl.

I'll shut up about all this eventually because there's no rest for the wicked.

The next two weeks will bring a host of events and weird schedules for everyone, and it will continue from there as the boys will be home with Busy Dad all summer and we'll have a teenager on the move and she'll back in school right away.

She's going to take a high school course this summer to get it out of the way so that she'll have a study hall in the fall.

And, I'm suspicious the ride just gets faster from there.

The only other thing I have to report is that I just overheard a job interview going on at the next table where a lady told the interviewer that she'd need a week to drive to California to do some sort of work that would be required of the job because she is "way too scared" to fly anywhere.

He said he'd "be in touch."

Oh, and I have a few new Flickr pictures and a contest going on to win a $100 Lands' End gift card.

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