ping Wendy

Nope. I'll get to it. I'm just very very very very busy and up to my elbows in bored kids.

Now I know why Mom always looked so gleeful when she'd take me to the airport so I could spend the summer with my Dad. And if I called up and asked to spend an extra week down there, the answer was always "Sure!!!!"

I understand busy. :-) Just wanted to make sure I didn't miss out.

Howdy!

Cruising past a shopping center this week I saw these 3 lovely words on a store front, advertising their current sale: Back To School

Saw them at Target, too.

Like the Staples ad says, "It's the most wonderful time of the year!"

Ragm> Now I know why Mom always looked so gleeful when she'd take me to the

and here I am almost feeling bad cause I don't have any real back to schoolers this year. Getting out for the summer and going back to school were two of this moms favorite times of the year ;)

Love that Staples ad.

Don't miss the PTA at all : ) Taria

Sandy Ellis> Howdy!

Sometimes I think I'm among the minority. I wasn't happy when school started. Our kids were involved in 4-H and FFA so summer was anything but boring since they showed livestock at a minimum of 2 fairs. The fairs were a family affair with them showing and me a superintendent and DH the livestock hauler.

I saw the first of those here in JUNE!! A whole MONTH before the kids even broke up for summer! (They get August off here. James's school broke up for summer on Tuesday, and he'll start the new school year at the beginning of September.)

I just call it cruelty to children. Quite apart from the fact that if you buy the new school uniform THAT early, even if you buy it big, the little buggers grow out of it before they can wear it...

Howdy!

I don't have any going-back-to-schoolers, either, T. But it's getting those kids off the street and out of the stores that makes me happy to see the "big yellow taxis" picking up the local darlings and hauling their busy little butts back to school that makes me welcome the turn of the season.

So many intersections w/ ignored stop signs between my house and the quilt shops--oy! And the fancy new public swimming pool opened just up the street, this summer, more traffic to dodge, most of it frazzled parents and ignorant teen drivers. Does anyone pay attention to Driver's Ed anymore?!!!? What does "right of way" mean? And that big red octagon that says STOP in the middle--what's that all about?

Oh, yes, I welcome the return of the school semesters. Summer is highly over-rated.

Ragmop/Sandy--preparing to start little quilt 2 for the day...

one day my kids may realise the same thing

oh the bliss of 10 days of no bickering, crying, whining, ranting screeching and noisy kids! I love them a *lot* but also need real *me* time and that is hard to come by as a single mom of a 3 and a 5 year old!

And people here seem to think I was nuts for stocking up on school supplies already! Here, school starts in 22 days...whee!!!!!

Larisa

Sandy Ellis> Howdy!