For most SAHM, the start of school is like waiting for the Derby bell…sans the big fancy hats with ribbon and roses. There’s a lot of anticipation, a lot of money is thrown around…and everyone celebrates afterward with iced Mint Juleps… Cosmos if they are big-city folk… herbal tea if they frequent meetings with name badges and a sponsor in the crowd.
Minus the galloping horses and small men with tight pants, every year Staples says it best:
I love that commercial.
Because it’s so true…
For me, the start of school not only calls for joy-riding shopping carts, but also for cartwheels across the front lawn; possibly even including an “old lady” herkie (also known as a jerky herky). Sure the neighbors might balk and shudder but come 7:50 a.m., if they are SAHMs that have school-aged kids, they will also be rootin’, tootin’ and shootin’ fireworks to celebrate with me. Afterward we all will grocery shop with a hop and a skip, get a haircut (even if it’s with the stolen Fiskar’s 5″ orange-handled scissors from their kid’s pencil box) and eat lunch in lovely silence. You know, PB&J at its finest.
I’m all in favor of summer. Don’t get me wrong, I love my kid. But when there is opportunity for a win-win…I’m all in. What’s that Guy Fieri always says, “Winner…Winner…Chicken dinner…”? Yes, that too. And I’ll even make it, mid-day, while humming the opening theme to Grease 2.
Speaking of, is it just me or could Maxwell Caulfield turn some heads?
*sigh* …
*falling out of chair* …
The operative word being, “could”…
I digress…
Tomorrow is my 6-year-old’s “Meet and Greet” – bright and early. I am ecstatic to wake at the ass-crack of dawn, wrestle for a parking spot a mile away and walk in with my breastfeeding 4-month-old…sucking her hand and drooling like a leaky sieve. Oh happy…joy…joy! Yes, stop the carousel, I will want to get off…to take a nap…and possibly an aspirin…or two. Of course come Thursday, I will be able to…once again. Thank God! After all, every SAHM values clean underwear for all…and a nap. Trust me…
…and don’t under-estimate the amount of excitement behind my smile. It could generate more power than the Hoover Dam, emit a more powerful breeze than a California wind farm… It might even force me to don a cape and leap tall buildings in a single bound. WordGirl has nothing on me. Seriously, just let me get through the rest of this week and then I’ll grin and show you some teeth. After all, Madison isn’t really a morning person and I fear for my sanity when she hits 16!
Of course that’s not saying much though. It’s ok, sanity is only relevant if you hang out with sane people…
*looking around*
I love that video! We still have more than a month until school starts. I guess I understand, since summer in Michigan is so brief. The mom in me? I started counting days A LONG time ago.
But you got out of school later than us too…right? I just had the Meet & Greet and now I’m wondering how in the heck I am going to endure 5:30 am mornings… I’ll tell you how… ’cause the kiddo will be in school ALL day and I’ll be able to NAP!!! That’s how! lol
We registered my oldest for school the other day. While I won’t be kid-free, it will be nice to have one less to keep occupied during the day. woo hoo!