My Children Made me This Way

Winter break is officially over and I have survived! I got up with the first little peep of the alarm. I woke up Monsters who immediately started with the same grumblies that they went to bed with. But I smiled, and I sing songed at them to rise and sparkle and then I half skipped to the kitchen to make breakfast.

Now I do remember what it was like to wake up that Morning when you go back to school off vacation. At least the teenaged portion of it. The half anticipation, half dread. You get to see your friends, but you have all that school work again. D (OMG she will be 13 this year) was angsty with it this morning with it. She fussed with her clothes and messed with her hair, vacillating between sighs and smiles.  By the time their Pappy came to pick them up she wasn’t in so much of a sulk.

S was his usual groggy upon waking.. He wolfed down his breakfast, wore part of it and had to change his shirt, and then finished off what F left on her plate. By the time he had some food in him he was animated and excited about getting back so he could get a new library book.  So much so he left his glasses at home, and I had to have my dad come back and get them and take them to school for me.

F and C…well, chocolate chip pancakes and the fact that they would be on the playground today was enough to have have them bouncing once they got a touch more awake. I even had the pair of them excited and in the kitchen as I cooked, singing silly made up songs about going back to school with me.  Much to the dismay of D.

And now…it is quiet. My house is mine. My Monday is mine. Christmas is now officially over.

Happy 2009!