Inspired by Delinquency
Delinquent Daisy posted so I will, too. Try to get back in the habit, instead of using emails to Daisy and Hez as my own personal LJ. Hah.
1) All alone today. Boys went back to school. Preparing only two lunches and filling out only two sets of school paperwork was...odd. Admittedly worried about Shrek and school. He has been increasingly defiant when it comes to anything he doen't want to do. So homework should be fun. Luke... God love him, at 11PM last night was starting the history essay due today.
2) Bookworm is loving college, and is impressing me by taking care of paperwork and phone calls, etc, to clear up scheduling mistakes and secure her dream job in the campus library. (While she is a brilliant student, these things were not her strong suit at home.) We took her out for a bday breakfast on Monday. Didn't stay too long, she had plans. : )
3) In relation to points 1 and 2, I invented a new Red Letter Calendar Day yesterday. Borrowing from the Jewish calendar, I named it Mom Kippur. Falling the day before school begins, Mom Kippur is the day moms set aside to feel horrible and guilty for all of the things they did not do for their children over the summer. Moms can not be consoled, but will benefit from wearing sackcloth and ashes for a 24 hour period, while devising concrete ways to better themselves and their Momming in the coming year. There is also High Mom Kippur, in which moms review the guilt accrued by accumulated "meant-to's" and "should-have's" over the entire lifetime of a child who has completed their everyday residency at home (ie, gone to college or otherwise moved out.) Following the Mom Kippur cleansing, moms emerge re-energized and recommitted to being amazing. Cool, huh?
4) Thing that outraged me the most this week: The AZ state Corrections Department instituting a one-time "background check fee" of $25 for those wanting to visit inmates. All family and friends. You want to see your loved one? Open your wallet. (Thankfully they amended it to exclude infants and small children before it went into effect.*rolls eyes*) They even admit the money isn't really being used for a background check, but is being raised to plug a budget shortfall for prison repairs. They thought it was a good way to raise money. Yes, put the weight on the most vulnerable. For a couple billion reasons I say, um, no.
And now, in accordance with my first day post-Mom Kippur, I need to bake first-day-of-school cookies.
1) All alone today. Boys went back to school. Preparing only two lunches and filling out only two sets of school paperwork was...odd. Admittedly worried about Shrek and school. He has been increasingly defiant when it comes to anything he doen't want to do. So homework should be fun. Luke... God love him, at 11PM last night was starting the history essay due today.
2) Bookworm is loving college, and is impressing me by taking care of paperwork and phone calls, etc, to clear up scheduling mistakes and secure her dream job in the campus library. (While she is a brilliant student, these things were not her strong suit at home.) We took her out for a bday breakfast on Monday. Didn't stay too long, she had plans. : )
3) In relation to points 1 and 2, I invented a new Red Letter Calendar Day yesterday. Borrowing from the Jewish calendar, I named it Mom Kippur. Falling the day before school begins, Mom Kippur is the day moms set aside to feel horrible and guilty for all of the things they did not do for their children over the summer. Moms can not be consoled, but will benefit from wearing sackcloth and ashes for a 24 hour period, while devising concrete ways to better themselves and their Momming in the coming year. There is also High Mom Kippur, in which moms review the guilt accrued by accumulated "meant-to's" and "should-have's" over the entire lifetime of a child who has completed their everyday residency at home (ie, gone to college or otherwise moved out.) Following the Mom Kippur cleansing, moms emerge re-energized and recommitted to being amazing. Cool, huh?
4) Thing that outraged me the most this week: The AZ state Corrections Department instituting a one-time "background check fee" of $25 for those wanting to visit inmates. All family and friends. You want to see your loved one? Open your wallet. (Thankfully they amended it to exclude infants and small children before it went into effect.*rolls eyes*) They even admit the money isn't really being used for a background check, but is being raised to plug a budget shortfall for prison repairs. They thought it was a good way to raise money. Yes, put the weight on the most vulnerable. For a couple billion reasons I say, um, no.
And now, in accordance with my first day post-Mom Kippur, I need to bake first-day-of-school cookies.