We are having a whopping good time here – come and join us!  🙂  (NOT)

Next week is spring break for our kiddos.  You’d think that should be a week for a little rest and relaxation and spending time with the kids?  NOT gonna happen with four teenagers in the house!!!  One day, I have to go get an MRI.  Next day, DD#3 has to get a sports physical; that night, we’ll be celebrating her birthday along with my foster mother’s birthday.  Next day all four kids go to the dentist for check-ups.  Next day I have to take my foster mother to town for a chiropractic appointment.  Then, the kids and Grandma have ganged up on my husband to take them on a long weekend to the coast (thankfully, I’ll spend the time they’re gone taking care of the pets and fowl at home alone).  In between all of that, I need to make not one but three special birthday dinners (one on their actual birthdays and one for the day they’ve chosen to celebrate their birthdays), try to remain calm so I can function and still take time to enjoy the kids on their break.

We also have a special project that’s been started and hubster has to do the lion’s share of the work on getting that set up.  Unfortunately for him, he’s also our driver, so he has to do double time instead of me sharing the loads with him. 

And then comes scheduling for DD#1’s high school graduation, the award’s ceremonies she has to attend, the campus tours, the continuous scholarship forms and the never-ending out-of-pocket expenses necessary for her graduation.  Her graduation isn’t until May but it’s already been a LONG semester with something every week for us to deal with for her impending graduation – and her parents trying to keep her grounded enough to keep her grades up.

One-Act Play (OAP) is also taking up time for DD#1 and DD#2.  They have attended three festivals now and that’s the end of those, but competition is the third week of March (and they won’t have practices over spring break) so their director has added yet another evening to their normal practice schedule.  And DD#2 is in tennis, so she practices up to four nights a week and usually ends up staying at school for OAP practices, without a break in-between times.

And then summer schedules have been discussed for a couple of months.  Who wants to go to camp?  What camps do they want to go to?  Who is working this summer?  Who is volunteering this summer?  On and on and on.  I think the only thing that’s been “for sure” determined is Boy Scout summer camp for my husband and son.  Everything else is still being discussed, with dates penciled in on the calendar.

Our kids get as much of us as we can give them.  I would hope that most parents do the same for their kids, so you may already be in the same situation that we’re in.  Many mention the fact that once they leave home, we will miss all this fun.  At this point, that fun is no fun for my husband and I am unable to help much because of my MS. 

We take each day as it comes and keep adding or subtracting from our yearly calendar.  Is anyone else dealing with so many schedules, conflicts and time lost trying to schedule their days and weeks on the telephone?