13 things about school being back in session

There are no first day of school blues in this house, and I don't really care if that makes me a 'bad' parent -- it makes me a sane one in this house. Monday can't come soon enough

1. I can turn my music up and the only complaining is from my howling cats
2. No more waking up to the sounds of gunfire and the grisly sounds of death at 6am
3. No more requests for Daddy to 'put on his 'puter so I can play the tank game' at 6am (noticing a theme here?)
4. Yes, I'm one of those bad parents that lets her child play wargames and takes them to adult action flicks.
5. The glorious sound of silence. Pop/rap/rock music is for cleaning, silence (something as you can see from the above has been lacking lately) is for writing. Well, that's not quite true, I do have instrumental relaxation/meditation/inspiration music going on in the background.
6. It's much easier to diet when you don't have the temptation of going halvsies with the kiddo whenever he's feeling peckish.
7. Less mess
8. Well, that's the theory anyway -- I don't aim to be messy, I just frickin hate housecleaning!
9. Get to have Friday Morning Coffee again with my girlfriends. It goes on hiatus over summer as it's a tad difficult to have coffee and gossip when you have to corral ten kids.
10. Running errands, while still a chore, will not be quite so tedious. No more 'I'm waiting in the car' 'no you're not, its 101degrees out and you're 7, if a policeman comes by he'll arrest Mummy for being bad' arguments
11. See above but insert Gym and home. Though I've been just giving in on this one and saying to hell with it ... might a good reason why the pounds have crept on and my favourite capris are too damn tight.
12. I will miss the conversations like todays 'How about we get Miss Jenna to cut you're hair after she does Mummy's?' 'Did she cut Daddy's hair?' 'No, why do you ask that?' 'Cause if she was the one that gave Daddy his bald spot I don't want her cutting my hair!' I swear, that is word for word, cross my heart, a true conversation ... for the sake of FB's embarrassment I won't go into the old persons and baldspots comments after that :)
13. No door to door school bus this year. Crap, that means I have to start using the car lane ... I need Wi-Fi! *sob*

Oh what a beautiful morning!

Oh yes, yes it is. I don't care if the skys are grey or that there are rain clouds on the horizon, today is a wonderful, wonderful day.

Yes, today is the first day back at school!!

Do I sound too joyful? Too estatically happy? I thought I might! Imagine me as the cowboy who just reached 10 seconds and is going for 11. Hot damn I feel good - even if I did have to get up at 6.17am to get his nibs ready for the bus. I will be getting my daily (7am-3pm) slice of sanity back!