Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Why can't I ever come up with a good blog post title?


I still hate it.

It's like the start of the year all over again.

Homework.

She is sitting at the table and writing like she never picked up a pencil before in her life.

I don't sit with her anymore. I learned that early on, but tonight? This time? I had to try to explain it to her, have her write the words and so forth and tell her the assignment. And so I watched her and I started sweating.

For G-dssake, child, don't hold the pencil like that.

Not like that, either.

Why are you doing this?

Why won't you write like a big girl?

She wraps her pencil in paper towel.

What?

Sit down, please.

Stop jumping rope.

It's 80-something degrees in here, we don't have the air on yet, and you're sweating like crazy.

SIT DOWN, PLEASE.

Most of this I did not say. Except the first few sentences. About the pencil.

I finally gave her some instruction and walked away.

It's not easy at this time of the year. I get it. It's hot and she just wants to sit down, snack, watch TV. Me, too. I'm human, I know.

She's been doing incredibly well lately, too. I don't feel broken anymore. 

I've stopped overreacting. 

For the most part, anyway.

It's been a good year, this first year apart.

It was rough going early on. Not for her, necessarily. She loved it. But for me. It wasn't easy.

I did learn not to miss her so much.

I also stopped making her the cutest lunches of all time.  You guys knew I would. It was exhausting. I mean, it was cute and all. And she liked them. But she likes any kind of lunch I give her, so we're good.

For the most part we didn't have too many what I learned in Kindergarten moments.

Although she did apparently teach my husband that the "b-word" is not a nice thing to say. Awesome.

And she told me how a tornado is formed. Yup.

Riiiight.

I'll be the first to admit that science and I do not get along. So I'm glad she's got her daddy's brain when it comes to that sort of thing.

And I'm glad she had such a positive year.

And I'm also glad I have her scheduled for at least one week of camp this summer.

FOR NOW.

Because ... seriously?

I'm pretty sure I'm gonna have to chill some wine. A LOT of wine.

But hey, it's almost always 5 o'clock somewhere, right?


7 comments:

  1. Oh, I hate homework!

    It's even worse this time of year. I'm ready for it to be over(though I do have camps scheduled!).

    sounds like she had a good first year!

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  2. My youngest and I battle over homework EVERY night. That is one thing about school ending on Friday. He just doesn't like school. I don't know if he ever will. That makes for 10 more long years. Good luck this summer.

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  3. It's so hard. Let her do a crappy job and email the teacher and let her handle it... well, maybe not now, but next year...

    I did start no TV on weeknights and that helped. AT first it was finish your homework neatly and correctly, but that was still a battle. No choice helps.

    You've done great, Mamma and so has she.

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  4. Aw! This is so sweet. It's all a journey and you two are such a cute pair as you go on it together. It sounds like a great first year of school. You did great, mama! (and so did she!)

    (And I thought this title was totally catchy. I couldn't wait to click on it when I saw it in my feed!!) --Lisa

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  5. Oh I've heard so many stories about the homework battles! Something I am definitely not looking forward to. :(

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  6. Felt like I read what I did a couple of days ago when my son drove me crazy with his writing homework. Sigh. Good to know I'm not alone in this homework battles.

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  7. My son is in JK which I think is considered preschool in the US?
    He gets homework.
    Seriously.

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