Stressed Out Mommies!!!

Posted by Vulnadia on Aug 23, 2010 at 01:08 PM With back-to-school in full swing (all of mine aren't quite there yet,) It got me to thinking about how stressed out WE AS MOMMIES are when faced with making new schedules for our kids. My trio are schedule babies & I know they will LOVE school structure, but it's MY schedule that is up in the air at the moment!!! I've spent the past summer working to get my trio into school with weeks & weeks of appointments for this & that, everything from doctor's appointments & dentist visits to haircuts and testing for everything under the sun, rarely at the same time! The last testing was late July, then we had to play ping-pong phone tag with everyone under the sun to get them to find the paperwork, get the kids into the school system (one still has yet to make it) and then convince someone to make a decision on accepting them to this or that program: each one decided to give the other body the decision making factor, making it a huge stand-off just to get the admission letters! FINALLY we managed to get someone to decide if they were going to accept them one way or another. I went to school for high school and watched the little slide show & signed the former blue-now-white-book pages for my eldest then went the following Monday for the trio. I came back home with major homework projects for my munchkins that I had only one evening to figure out and put together & it lasted into the wee hours of the morning because silly me decided to choose the first day of high school for their testing & I chose slots all in a row! It would have been great, & I suppose having to go up there every hour to switch out kids really helped them become more comfortable with the school and they now know their way around, but it was hard coming and going, especially when we got blocked in by the carpool line!!! I ran errands to the school board, the library, the doctor and lunch runs in between testing slots & switching out the kids! Thursday, Daddy had a funeral, so I ended up keeping my nephew who is 5 & also hadn't started yet and then we ran carpool for the older 3 kids, so in all my mommievan had a full house of 7 kids 1 driver...we went to three different schools all in a row-middle school first, then elementary school, then on to high school. I thought the kids would find it fun, but instead it was loud, and my nephew left smiley face dental imprints in my boys arms because he got bored and decided to bite...(hence the loud part!) I somehow survived, but tomorrow morning, I have to decide if it's best that my eldest help me get the kids in class FIRST at 8am, or if it would be better if I drop him off first so he can have breakfast and leisurely get to whichever set of classes he has tomorrow...hmmm even I am not sure which day is which at the moment...I think it's A classes, but who knows! I need to verify school supplies with his A classes which he's only been to once now and see if we need dress shoes for choir...and assess the final damage on school fees which is about $300 once it's all said and done... I don't know if I will cry or jump for joy once I have the trio stashed safely at school. They cannot WAIT to get there, they love their teacher, the aid and the room including the turtle, the hamster & the gecko too. I worry that I will get home and turn right back around & have to go back for this or that or worse end up in the principal's office the very first day...could happen!!! Then on Wednesday, we have the mondo-massive very marathon IEP meeting for the trio which should be interesting to say the least since it was originally supposed to be designed to decide school placement but since they were about to give away our spots, we ended up jumping on board the original plan just to keep them...the whole "IS it the right choice" bit is nagging away at me...what if they want to send them to the other school with different uniforms and teachers? I await dr referral pickup for some of the services we need, but don't want to drag the babies out there to get it with me today...I need to make bows for Vivienne so she can feel pretty at school (the english schoolgirl variety, not the huge honking bigger-than-your head variety!) I'm worried about staying on top of 8 highschool classes plus 2 online courses which need finals taken...I haven't the first clue about Italian...I know all about choir and piano, but don't THINK that will become a problem...then there is the English teacher... That's what gets us every year it seems...this year, after spending last year with a very interesting personality, we ended up landing one that seems to have modeled herself after Professor Umbridge from Harry Potter, the lady who always wears pink & has the kittens on the plates hanging in her office...sadly, and privately, this lady really does seem that way even from a parent's perspective after checking out her website...oh my... So is anybody else trying to figure out how they will schedule their day and fit everything and everyone's activities and carpool in and still stay sane? I just worry about spending everyday at school in trouble or something instead of being able to start working again and focus on other things during the school day! have you tried the potty power video yet? its mostly girl themed, audience participation & my daughter caught on really fast...same day fast... i totally get where you're coming from-potty training was awful here-it meant them fighting over the same potty, the plastic pottys, heck i had one go all the way upstairs to try & avoid a fight over having to go potty...i think i spent most of the summer in the tiny closet sized bathroom with the trio!!! i'll be spending every 17 days up at school for 3 days straight doing snackdays...then i do storytime 6 whole times for the year...between everything i have to do as a mommie at school i'm afraid i may be there almost as much as my kids!!! ~Mimi i got my copy off the internet-amazon probably has it! oh my...i'm already committed to soo much up at school already!!! i dont mind doing school things with my kids, but i worry that i will be up there TOO much (you know how kids act differently w/o the parents around? that's my worry!!! I dont want them showing off, being loud to get more attention etc) its one of those for the normal mom who has one snack day every 19 days, i have 3 snack days in a row every 17 days!!! meaning i will be up at school every day for over half the week at 2pm doing snacks!!! (cups plates napkins & food for 20 each day!) talk about a heavy presence!!! then i have storytime in addition to snack days & that's going to be 6 more days...then add in the other activities on top of it!!! but it will be an adventure, that's for sure!