Getting back in the routine after summer
Back to school is around the corner for many of us.
At the beginning of the summer, since I don’t have a summer break like my husband and kids, I spend a lot of time grousing about having to keep my routine while they don’t.
However, later in the summer, while I’m caught up in my regular routine, I forget that they’ve left theirs and we’re always scrambling to get on some sort of schedule before school starts back.
Sure, I know what the experts recommend about getting back in the school habit before summer’s over, but even with the best intentions, we don’t do it.
For example, I always have big plans to make my middle child do a little math over the summer since it’s not always his best subject. We talk about it, it’s always “I’ll start this afternoon” and it just somehow never happens. It’s not something that I have to “enforce”, but it would be a good thing to do, and we just don’t seem to get around to it.
I also always say I’ll have uniforms and school supplies purchased before the end of July so I won’t be rushing around in the middle of August.
Why, hello there July 31st!
We won’t even talk about the fact that my daughter is getting up at 2pm some days.
I’m not that disorganized, I think I just get caught up in my day to day work routine and I’ve become used to their lack of routine and don’t think to prepare until the last minute.
In the meantime, does anyone have any spare volleyball knee pads for my daughter’s tryouts tomorrow? I’ve only known about needing them since June.
ahhhh the end of summer blues!!!! I’m just sending my oldest to K this year….I’m NOT looking forward to it. WHO will fetch me fresh diapers and wipes? or throw away the smelly ones? lol
no luck on the pads over here, sorry mamma
I think baby-steps! Just plan to do 2 things each day. Not more, not less. Next thing you’ll know, in 5 days, all the to-do’s will be off your list and it’s Aug 5. Not bad!
I’m a school librarian, so I’m off in the summer with my teen and pre-teen. I both love and loathe the summer. At the beginning, we are so excited to be out and we sleep and stay up late and eat whenever and it is glorious. Toward the end, this begins to wear thin. No schedule is really no way to live and we (really just me) start to look forward to school again, just so we can be in a routine and actually accomplish something other than laying around and playing. I go back to work in a week and the kids follow the week after that. I’m not sad about it, although there is much scrambling to finish summer reading….
I am looking forward to the start of school…. sure, I will grumble and complain but it FORCES me to get up earlier, get the kids out the door earlier, and as a result I get to work earlier.
We found out 4 days ago that there was, for the first time, a summer assignment for the 9yo’s class, which all the other kids were notified of in May.
Umm.
School starts in 4 more days. I have to say, the teacher has been awfully nice about it, but it was a rather rude bump at the end of our summer.