Home stretch
I love my kids, I really do. But after being home with them for a week (they've been on school vacation), I'm more than ready to send them back on their respective buses and get them back to school come tomorrow. Having them home is really disruptive to my work, as I work from home.
I know Bonnie's looking forward to it as well. She does a lot of her work from the house, making phone calls to clients, and she was grousing on Friday that she hasn't been able to do so because of the constant din of chatter and yelling from the kids.
Without sounding like too much of a Scrooge, I find the whole concept of school vacation to be anachronistic and unnecessary. Given that so many households have two parents who work, and given that they are likely only to get a few weeks per year of vacation themselves, I really think that schoolkids ought to be on a similar schedule, and that schools ought to operate with enough flexibility that kids can take vacations with their families whenever it's convenient for the family, rather than convenient for the school.
But in the end, I guess it's another example of how anachronistic and inconsistent schools are with the lifestyles and needs of the very people they're tasked to help.