First day of school for the kiddos today! Yes, I shattered their dreams, woke their little butts up and put them on a school bus.  WOO HOO!!!

Not that I am that excited about it or anything.

Actually, this year is the first year that I was right there with them savoring those last moments of Summer. Relishing the last day of freedom…

Back to school has always been one of the happiest times of my life. Not because I was a good student, but because in my mind Fall represented “reinvention.” A fresh start. A clean slate. A chance to do and be whatever I wanted.

So, in honor of my tremendous geeky love for “Skool Dayz,”  I now present to you and opportunity to mock me forever.  You’re welcome.

Prom circa 1989.  Aqua Net is fabulous, isn’t it?

Hanging in the hallway with my girl posse!

I was on the Pom squad for two weeks and, of course, someone
just HAD to document it. Grumble, grumble, grumble…

Do you hear that?  It is a quiet calm settled through the households around the great state of Maryland.

Why?

The Maryland School Assessments are being conducted throughout the state this week.  For teachers, I suppose it is five days of stressful exam situations. But for us parents, it is nirvana.

Well, at least a slice of it.

For me, the working mother, it is a rare slice of serenity in a sea of turbulence.  MSA testing, at least in my school, means no homework. Can you feel my relief?  Not only that but  this week I have found MY VERY OWN OFFSPRING lecture ME about how they need to get to bed early and eat a healthy breakfast. Imagine that!  The school must be really drilling that info in them because it is working miracles in this household, let me tell you.

So for one week, my children come home and the entire family is relaxed and carefree.  There are no homework battles. No papers. No deadlines. It is like a mini-vacation.

I am savoring it.