The First Monday after Spring Break equals Nightmare

Sooooo spring break is such a wonderful time of year for most people and for a huge majority in my little area along the lakeshore of Saint Joe, Michigan which in case you didn't know would be Lake Michigan, which is one of five great lakes....ok, ok back to the point.  So the huge majority would be the higher paid salary folks that can actually afford to take to take a family vacation out of state...oh like Cozumel, Florida or the East Coast but for me I stay and do my retreating catching up on some sleep.  I am not complaining about the much needed sleep and the wonderful few mornings of sleeping in.  I get to enjoy that on the breaks now that I am a true stay at home mom, wife, house maid, taxi driver, soccer coach, self-employed volunteer and many other titles of far too little recognition thanks to my wonderful Multiple Sclerosis, Fibromyalgia, Spondylolisthesis, interstitial cystitis and mitral valve prolapse.  All are sooo much fun…haha <sarcasm>.  I still, however, try my best to remain positive and to fulfill my purpose in life but I am not quite sure as of yet what that purpose really is so I just take one day at a time and do my very best to deal with the pain.  I have good pain days and bad pain days but one thing you can’t take away from yet anyway is my ability to coach youth soccer!


Soo one week with the kids and it wasn't too bad.  I had some fun hanging out with my boys and I was able to take them and a friend of theirs to a movie and I went to the next theater and watched a movie by myself....haha  I actually enjoyed being there by myself and I believe this was the first time I ever sat alone in a movie theater and it was quite nice.  I didn't have to share the popcorn, nachos or anything else and I had the whole row to myself, how nice is that???!!!  Pretty awesome if you ask me haha.  So they spent a few hours abiding for my attention over the week so that was nice but the rest of it was spent on me driving them somewhere.  I was hoping to color Easter eggs with them but apparently they are too old for that....:(  that was sad and I suppose I could have been some crazy Martha Stewart obsessed, OCD mother who made them participate but I thought why not so I tried doing Easter eggs by myself tie dying them with silk ties.....eh is all I can say about that....lol.


Soo it is Monday morning of a new week at school and for my kids they now have 38 actual school days til summer break and then the chaos begins.....eek!!!!  I was very proud of my high schooler son.  When I got up to take my husband to work at 6:42 am, he was already in the shower....woo hoo, yippee, it is a great day!!!  Sooo I tried waking my 11 year old up and of course a no go.  So I came back from taking my husband to work and once again tried multiple times to wake him and a no go.  I then got the spray bottle of water and began to spray him which of course he slowly like a slow motion picture got out of his bed.  He grumbled and moaned and I thought oh dear Lord.  Well I am not dealing with just a grumpy pre-teen here but a child with ADHD and mood disorder soooo it is just another day in the war zone and I have to put my fake, happy face on to hopefully block the deep seeded frustration I am having towards him at this very moment.


Sooo to make a very long story short, the older one got mad at the younger one because he didn't want to get ready hence making the older one late for school (AGAIN) and the younger one of course is throwing things and yelling and he finally got  into the car and off we went to their specific school locations.  As I dropped my youngest one off I gave him a kiss and told him to have a great day.  He seemed ok at that point and all I can do is cross my fingers for a good day and for me to not get any phone calls from the principal.  He was excited because he was after two months able to return to the "regular population".  This meant he was able to eat breakfast and lunch with his friends and go to morning and afternoon recess but he would still have to do recess with the principal.  He has continued to get into so much trouble at school that this was our only justification with him but he had been doing well this past month and has earned that privilege back so I reminded him to focus, be good and not lose his good privilege.  I got an email two hours later stating that he so far was doing very well, wanting to do work, being nice, etc.....the tears began to roll down my face with happiness and elation that my troubled son is having a good first day from break, now if he can just have 38 great days ahead we will be happier than a kid at the candy store.....Yahoo!!!!


Sooo as most Mondays go, they start off sort of crummy but it got wrapped up quite well and I am so thankful for that.


Anyone else have some grumpy people to deal with after Spring Break?  ie: Kids??