Summer is almost over! In one week, all of the children will step onto that big yellow (air conditioned) bus and I will be left to no excuses. I better get a job! Now, expectations go up. A clean house? Do you mean the bathrooms too? PROJECTS? You mean that I should have a clean house and be completing maintenance and such? But who's going to cook? WHAT?

LOL! Of course, I'm kidding! I'm very excited about the new phase of our family. At the beginning of this year, I worked myself up into a real panic over what I should do when the kids start school. It's taken me 13 weeks to figure out that I don't have to do anything immediately. I still have moments of anxiety. A feeling that I must be somewhere, contribute, pull my weight. As if I won't be if I stayed home all day! Between being a taxi service and planning lunches, and home meals, cleaning, painting and helping with homework, along with all of the small details that go with running a house and family....I think I'll still feel useful. One week. What can happen in a week? A hurricane that may be here or close by Wednesday, school supplies to purchase, haircuts for all, new tennis shoes, lunch planning and an evaluation of clothes that still fit or need to be donated. Yes, I best go, I'm wasting time.