The Witching Hour.....

I am bravely blogging at 4:00pm. This is the worst time of day at the house as all the kids are now home from school and have to remember how to live with each other again. Amazingly they forget that they are not "only children" every single day and come home and want things IMMEDIATELY!! Case in Point: my son called me from school and said "oh my god. I need you to pick me up at school right now and drive me to the store right now to get project making supplies...right now."
I said " what kind of project?"
the response being "God! you think I'm lying that I just want to do this for fun? I need posterboard and glue and markers and sharpies and construction paper, and and and and...". Whoa. Ok.
so I respond "you'll have to wait until your sister gets home before I leave the house."
"how long is THAT gonna take???"
"I have no idea."
So about 20 minutes later I leave the house to get the boy and hit Rite Aid. I say "we have plenty of construction paper, glue, markers, sharpies, etc. We only need posterboard."
"I don't want the one with the stupid 'ghost lines'. I want it blank"
Now, of course they are out of blank posterboard so I end up spending $4.49 on FOAMBOARD! which has ghostlines on one side but is blank on the other. He suggests that if its such a big deal we can go to another store.
No thank you!
Now it is occurring to me that the ghost lined posterboard also has a blank side? Crap.
The bright side... I didn't buy all new project supplies as is the usual case.
So, I get home and now there are lots of teenagers here, not that it is a bad thing. It's just a noisy thing.
"Mom, what's for dinner?" has already started ruminating through the house.
"baked pancakes and eggs! with fruit!" Easy, cheap and who doesn't love breakfast??
It will all be worth it in the end, right? Kaleigh called from college today and got a 100% on her first college english essay! Hooray! Proof is in the pudding...

Kellie

Time flies when school starts!

So yesterday I experienced my first day of all the kids in school! Here's the breakdown: Sara is at pre-k, Kara is 3rd grade, Ben is 8th grade, Brian is 9th grade, Philip is 11th grade and Kaleigh is at COLLEGE!!!!!!!!. Do the math; I have a child in every school this year. That is alot of conferencing and fundraising.
We brought Kaleigh off to Southern Vermont College in Bennington, VT last Saturday. It is SOOO beautiful up there! She is totally loving her college life. What's not to love? She has all the freedoms and none of the responsibilities! These are the happiest days of her life!
In case you were curious, yes that was me on channel 9 news last Sunday night and Monday morning. I happened to be at the Fishercats game where Dice-K Matsuzaka was pitching for the Sea Dogs on his rehab. Was THAT why I was there? Of course not! Our good friends, the Spring's, won tix and free dinner to that game and invited us so I was really there for the free food! DIce-K happened to also be pitching. He was horrible. That's all I will say. But the steak tips were pretty good! :)
We have a long 4-day weekend ahead of us. What to do.... The Hopkinton Fair is an option. I hate the fair. Too crowded and I hate midways. I actually enjoy the giant pumpkins and the smelly farm animals, though.
Time to make a grocery list and head off to Weight Watchers, where I will probably have gained weight again this week. Yay me.

Kellie