I can not believe that it has been two months since the boys have been out of school, how time flys! Here in South Africa, the schools run from the end of January until the end of November. I have always been in the minority when it comes to my feelings about the end of school breaks-I dread them! I never want them to end, I love when my kids are home! Some days are tough, but most are awesome-to have the sound of little feet around me is so uplifting(OK-sometimes loud!) This time will be among the hardest, I think it will really take its toll on me. These kiddos are my life and it will be a very lonely and silent house without them-how will I ever deal with college! Not only is Claire now in school five days, but I think being in a foreign country has brought us all very close. Taylor, I am afraid, may have a hard time this go round-he is typically my very social one, but being away from his friends has made him become very attached to me! Hunter is Hunter, and would stay at home with me year round- he always says he is never going to leave me.
I think another reason that the end of school breaks are so hard for me is because it is a confirmation of them growing up! If I could only bottle this time with them, and have it forever. I think my happiest moments are when everyone is at home, and they are playing in the backyard, and life could not be any more simple!
Well, I will send them on their way this coming Wednesday, I will do my best not to cry, at least not in front of them, and I will attempt to have a personal life-Please help me, What is that?
Call me crazy, but this is the job that I dreamed of-being a Mom! I will have to start thinking of ways to keep myself preoccupied for the hours that they are away-I want to do some volunteering, I want to take up tennis, scrapbook, sew and of course I could always help at school!
Oh, how I will miss my babies!
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