Surviving the First Week

Friday.  Why the heck am I this tired when it's been such a (fairly) mellow week?  Getting half of them back on the school track perhaps?  Yet there have been no other activities.  S & E were gone most of the week so I didn't have to prepare "real" dinners.  I think I am mourning the end of summer and the looser schedule.  However I'll admit to being glad that they're at school learning/socializing rather than quibbling over whose turn it is on the computer.  It's peaceful which I am appreciating.  They both love their teachers and seem to happy with their classmates and friends.  I am going to focus on that.  It's all good.  And I planned NOTHING for this weekend.  I knew S would be exhausted after the Boston trip and then having to get up at the crack of dawn to be up in Irvine or Newport or wherever he is.  Big kids go back on Tuesday.   Yay!  I'm really excited for them.  Last year and first years of high school.  It's insane when I think about my original playgroup in Bmore.  If we would have stopped at 2 like most of them did, I'd be looking at an empty nest in a few years.  I cannot even wrap my head around that.  How much I would have missed out on if not for them!