Same Boat?

How do you know that school is about to start in the Mitchell home?

We are 3/4 of the way through the assigned books and no book reports have been done. Phoenix has tried on many occasions to start her report without the book being completely read and Stone while he is loving to read the book is already refusing to do the required report which is due on Wednesday morning bright and early.

(BTW: Jackie & me by Dan Gutman is an amazing read and in my opinion should be required reading to any 8 or 9 year old. It brought up many interesting topics which Stone and I were able to discuss at the time because we were reading the book together...I was so excited that "I" actually was able to introduce the "N" word to him for the first time and explain that every group of people has a bad name associated with them. Be them: women "bitches", people from Poland "polacks" (in the book), people with disabilities "retards", white people "crackers", and black people "niggers" (also in the book). It got me thinking how far we have come in one generation...I will bet Mitchell's mother was not able to be the first to introduce that hateful word to her son and to have a frank discussion with him about any "group of people" feeling threatened by any other group to which they are not familiar and especially be able to wait until he was age appropriate to be able to correctly receive the message in the way it was intended)

My prized possession...the Grandfather clock from my Grandparent's home...the only thing which if my home was burning down and I my Husband and children were safe I would actually think about risking my life and returning to the fire to save...has not been wound in three days. The weights are sitting on the bottom and it is not running...which means it is not chiming :(

My pool chemicals are newly (two weeks) bought and sitting unopened inside my house. When they really should be...
Cleaning up my nasty, green pool!
My dinning room table has become a school supplies graveyard

I have spent countless hours going through, trying on, packing up, and reading the "updated" version of the dress code only to figure out I still need to go shopping. Did I mention that I hate to shop?
But there really is nothing prettier than a clean, organized, non-cluttered closet!
I have about 20 forms to fill out...Do you think they would be offended if I just wrote "Nothing has changed" at the top and sent them back? I guess I could muster up enough energy to fill out Avery's forms as she has never before attended Pre-school and they would probably need to know where to get in touch with us in case of emergency.

Oh my poor home~ My kitchen...My bathrooms...It is a sad sight to see! I just keep asking Mitchell to bring home milk for the babies...I would rather die than drag 5 children to the grocery store days before school starts. We can eat from food storage. As you can see we still have eggs. We also have food in the freezer but all of that requires work on my part to prepare so quite frankly we have been eating boxed mac and cheese, oatmeal, canned spaghetti products and anything else which takes me less than 1:30 seconds to microwave...lolSo to all those mothers who are in the same nasty backyard boat...just remember its only a few more days and then after a few short weeks of sanity we will be missing them again...well maybe :)