I have such mixed emotions about school starting. I have a hard time knowing that my children will be under the care and influence of someone else for the majority of their days. I actually really do miss them while they are gone for so long. I feel bad for the kids left at home who wait all day for their friends to return so they can have someone to play with. However I do get excited to get into a routine again and to be able to run errands again and be on my own schedule again. But I do know that after a month or two I will want the routines to end and to have my kids back to take them places and do things on my own clock and not after school hours. I will miss date nights during the week when the babysitters can come over whenever. I'll have to start waking up earlier to get my runs in so I can be back to help gets kids out the door for school. It will be nice to have the kids in bed earlier so that TJ and I can get our nights back. Since the kids have been staying up late I usually go to bed soon after so there hasn't been any us time. I already hate the sun going down so early and the mornings so dark when I run. I worry how Chloe will do going all day. And I will miss our laid back mornings which will now turn into a chaotic rush. But like it or not school is coming and I can't do anything about it but enjoy our last days of "freedom".
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