First Day of school

It's the day we all wait for, the day they FINALLY go back to school and this time the princess goes too!!

Clothes are laid out, backpacks are full of supplies, eveyone is in bed before 10:00, and I love it. They all went to bed very good and were so excited.

Morning: First day of school. The sports junkie is in a new school this year and scared to go (he is very timid), the bad one is ready with his crazy hair he refuses to let me cut and the princess is so excited she is up at 5:30 am. The confused one is even more confused and the dog is running in circles. It's ok though because no more calls of brothers fighting and screaming, no more coming home to a disaster after work, no more late nights outside, no more stinky kids (they have to shower every night before school). This is my favorite time of year.....

Afternoon: First day of school. The bad one calls to tell me the princess got off the bus with one of her friends (her sitter lives down the street from us, this is where she is supposed to go after school), the sports junkie calls to tell me he stayed after school for a golf meeting and needs picked up (???). NOOO this isn't supposed to be like this, not today, please no not today.
I tell the bad one to drag the princess to the sitters and the sports junkie to wait or get a ride. AHHH!

Evening: First day of school. I get home to a diaster, the bad one let the dog in and just roam around, papers that I need to fill out for school are everywhere, lists, and piles of things. What happened, where did my dream day go? Ok clean up the mess from the dog, fill out the papers for the kids, make dinner, and then try to get them inside. All of sudden they weren't so excited about school and coming in at 8:00, having to take a shower and get ready for bed.

Night: First day of school. The fights being. The bad one and sports junkie don't want to come in, the princess is crying because I yelled at her for getting off the bus with her friend, and the confused sits quietly, bottle in mouth, confused. I scream at them, while neighbors are looking on in sympathy, to GET IN! Then the battle between them about who gets in the shower first starts, I decide to make the bad one go first. He stomps upstairs, complaining the whole way, gets in and starts singing VERY LOUDLY for over 30 minutes. While waiting the sports junkie has started a game of Madden on his X-box, the princess is destoying her room trying to find an outfit for the next day that her teacher would like and the confused on is still sitting confused. The bad one gets out, I yell at the sports junkie to get in. He refuses, he's in the middle of a game, I don't care, tell him to turn it off and then he is mad. The sports junkie goes to the bathroom to get in the shower and yells because the bad one didn't put the shower curtain in and everyhing is soaked in the bathroom. Ok I don't care JUST GET IN! He does for maybe 3 minutes and is out, back to his game. I get the princess in bed after I throw the 50 different clothing items off her bed, I wipe down the confused one and put her in bed, try to bribe the bad one and sports junkie to go to sleep.

All is quiet for about 2 minutes. The sports junkie is playing his game, the bad one wants him to turn it off, the princess thinks she has changed her mind about what to wear and needs to go back through things and the confused is now screaming out of all the confusion. OOPSS! They pushed mommy to far, that's it Tv's off, lights out, no talking. They know how far they can go. At 11:00 pm I walk downstairs after all has been quiet for maybe 5 minutes, the dog has gotten into food on the table I haven't cleaned up yet. Now time to clean that up, watch the news and possibly get in bed before midnight.

So much for my dream day.