Lifes Like That

I have to tell you all that I am quite amazed at how much homework and projects my daughter (who’s in grade 6) has had this year. I swear to god that every teacher she has thinks they are the only teacher that my child has to deal with. She just turned in two major projects and brought home another project that she needs to complete. This one is going to be a little more time consuming than the others. She has to find some hip hop clothes and do a report on the history and the trends of these clothes. The teacher has given her a month to do this which is a good thing. Now… if only I could find some of these clothes to help her along.

I really thing that I’m finally done paying out money to the children’s schools for awhile. Over the past couple of weeks we have had to pay out a lot of money. Both the children need school fee money, both had their pictures taken, my daughter wants to take the babysitting course and both of them came home with fundraising notices. So this morning I sent both kids out the door with the last of the checks that were owed out. I really hope all this paying stops for a little while. After all, it will take me a little while to make some more money so I can turn around and hand it to the kids.

I have to say that having a child in middle school now has lead to very interesting conversations. It seems that these days she has more questions than answers. Just last night, out of the blue I might add, she started asking me all kinds of questions about my opinion on what the best diet pills are. She is only 11 and really does not need to worry about diet pills and weight loss, but I did try to answer her questions honestly. If these are the types of questions that she is going to start asking, I’m really dreading what may take place later on in the school year. But I will deal with each question as it comes.

Well my daughter is at it again. She has only been in school for one week, but has already signed up for three extra curricular activities. She has signed up for another year of playing the violin, she now belongs to the book club and she has also signed up for the drama club. She already had one meeting with the drama club and has already found out what their first play will be. She plans on auditioning for one of the lead roles. If she gets this role, I will have to find her a pair of breeches as she will be playing a girl that pretends to be a boy. I know if she gets the part, she will do a really great job.

The only thing about all these clubs that I’m concerned about is I don’t want her to get in over her head like she did last year. But, only time will tell if she can handle all these extra curricular activities. I guess we will have to wait and see what takes place.

Today both the children went back to school. My youngest son went into grade 4 and my daughter went into grade 6. Because my daughter started grade 6 today she went to a brand new school. And, if the clothes some of the older children were wearing is any indication what children wear in middle school, I’m going to have to keep a very close eye on my daughter’s choice of clothing. I was appalled at the “lack” of clothes some of the grade 7 children were wearing. I wouldn’t be all that surprised if they were taking weight loss pills as well. I didn’t realize that kids this young would start dressing like adults. But, what I can tell you is that even when my daughter is 16, she will NEVER walk out of the house on some of the get ups that these other kids were wearing. What in heck were their parents thinking?!

Well in less than three weeks the kids will be back in school. I have to tell you all that I am so… looking forward to this day. This has probably been the longest summer vacation of my life. The kids spent quite a bit of time fighting this summer and I have just about had it. But with less than three weeks to go, I really do think that I’m going to make it. Both of these kids need to be in school and when their home for any length of time they get bored and start to fight with one another. But this summer is slowly coming to an end so very soon they will both be back in school and I will have a quiet house once again.

Well in less than four weeks my children will be back in school. This means I have to get on the ball and start doing my back to school shopping. I am so dreading this experience. I don’t know what I dislike most, shopping for school supplies and clothing or shopping for diet pills. It’s a toss up. But with school shopping, comes a lot of money out of my own pocket. I can’t wait for the day that both of these children are out of school. Maybe then I will be able to save some money.

Only one month and four days to go until the children go back to school. Yes, I am counting down the days. This has been the longest summer ever and it’s only about half way through. July was probably the wettest month that we’ve experienced in a very long time. And because of all this rain, the children haven’t been able to get outside much. So they have spent a lot of time indoors and FIGHTING. This is the main reason why I am now counting down the days until school starts. I sound like a horrible mother now don’t I?? It’s not that I don’t love the children, I just don’t love their fighting. So in the next few weeks you will see some posts of me counting down the days.

Last week I made the decision that I don’t want to be a waitress for the rest of my life. So I have been doing a little research to see what type of field that I may like to get into. After doing this research I have determined that I’m probably going to need to go back to school to upgrade my education. And since I am now in my 40’s I have decided to take an online course.

After much searching, I have decided to possibly enroll in the Masters of Science in Information Security program. Because I’m not very technical I have decided to try out their managerial concentration. This course looks very interesting to me. They will teach you all aspects of information security. And since they have been around for a very long time, you can just bet that they offer one of the best information security programs around.

Although I do have two small kids still living at home, I am planning on putting this plan into action quite soon. I would like to be able to switch career when my daughter is old enough to watch my son. And that will take place in a couple of years, so I really need to get moving on this.

This is most definitely my children’s favorite time of year. It’s almost the end of the school year so now the kids get to have all the fun. The school has a lot of fun activities planned over the next couple of weeks and the kids keep coming home from school really excited about all this. My daughter’s grade 5 class will be going bowling and then go out to eat and my son’s grade 3 class is going swimming and then will also be going out for something to eat. They both have their sports day at school and on Saturday is our annual family fun day as well. So with all these events coming up in the new future, I’m really going to have to dust off the digital camcorders so I can capture all the action. I really think these next couple of weeks are going to be just as fun for me as it will be for them.