Life with a BQ: mom .. how many more days until school starts ..

both ellie and cash have been asking this question .. every day .. for at least the last 2 weeks .. they have asked so many times that we finally marked it on the calendar .. so now i ask them .. ellie .. how many days until school starts .. she doesn't even have to look .. she will shout out a number .. and she has always been right .. if you ask cash .. he hollers whatever number pops into his head .. the other day he said 63 .. and then was not happy when i corrected him and told him 18 .. no mom .. he said .. 63 .. ok cash ..

i wonder .. are they tired of summer .. of the long lazy days .. of sleeping in and staying up late .. of watching movies and swimming and boating .. or is ellie tired of the "school" that i have been running all summer .. flash cards .. reading .. math .. science .. hand writing .. yes .. we have been doing this in one way shape or form all summer .. i don't want her brain to turn to mush .. now i just wish that i would have gone over all those first grade spelling words again .. oh .. well .. there are still a few days left before school starts ..

we went up to the elementary school to today to check on a few things .. all the new text books and work books were in .. all stacked up so neatly by the principals office .. eagerly awaiting the teachers to pick them up .. unpack them and stack them on the shelves .. the hallways smelled of fresh wax .. the building smelled like paper and a hot laminating machine .. there are a select group of people who appreciate these smells and yes .. i am one of them .. heck .. i could be the leader .. some of the teachers were there .. working in their rooms .. getting things ready for their new group of students that will arrive in just a few short weeks .. i could feel the excitement in the building the minute i opened the door .. it was like an electrical current .. running thru every single body in the building .. you could almost see the lists of items that each teacher needs to purchase before school starts .. they hung like conversation balloons over each of their heads .. markers .. bull dogs clips .. paper clips .. colored paper .. new bulletin board boarders .. diet coke .. i wish that i could contain and bottle this feeling somehow .. and then open it up and let it spread like an infectious disease say .. right after spring break .. when some of the teachers are asking themselves .. tell me again why i wanted to become a teacher .. then the excitement that everyone feels at the beginning of the year would spread throughout and all would be right and whole again ..

while we were there .. we picked up little miss alison and took her to the vet with us and then brought her home .. no .. i did not make her do any of our "school" work .. instead .. we worked on our social skills and played beauty shop and swam .. or a few of us did .. cash wanted to explain to her about his trucks .. but we put him on another project ..