Tuesday, June 16, 2015

The numbers just don't add up!

180 days in the school year.  180 rough mornings full of sleepy kids that don't want to get out of bed. 180 busy mornings rushing around getting 6 people fed, dressed and out the door on time.  10,800 teeth brushed.  540 times ironing polo shirts and khakis.  180 afternoons full of reading logs and math books.  180 nights of packing backpacks, signing agendas, making sure everyone has 2 socks and only 1 underwear (who knew that would be a problem?!?).  180 times fighting over trying to remember if 2 shoes per person were brought home from school.  540 sandwiches in lunch bags.  180 times making sure everyone had the right superhero backpack and matching lunch bag.  180 days of reminding 3 boys to get the right color binder, to speak up, to wait their turn, to buckle up in the car.  180 long afternoons of waiting in the pick up line, just to hear the littlest one get excited to see one of his brothers.  180 times reminding the coach its Aiden and Jaiden not Kaiden and Jaiden.  540 snacks before homework.  180 days of saying, "No you can't have 4 bags of pop corn for snack".  180 times waking up in the middle of the night thinking I forgot to pack something.  It has all come down to this 1 day.  I may or may not have cried a little when the boys got out of the car.  As I watched them walk in the school for the very last time as a first and second grader, I realized in that moment that my babies are growing up.  My oldest is half way done with his elementary school career, when did that happen?!?  In 2 hours the next 71 days of summer vacation will officially start. All of these numbers add up to that 1 split second when I realize that it is all about to change in every way.

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