The Home Stretch

Every year by the end of June I’m ready for everything to stop.  School and all the other activities that consume our lives stretch that bit too long.  The helping with homework.  Constant taxiing to clarinet, rugby, football and swimming.  We still have 4 weeks of school!  Imagine how the kids feel!

Another year of milestones reached, time slipping by.  People say all the time about how fast time goes, and definitely certain things I look back on fondly but I honestly wouldn’t want to go back to broken sleep, constant diaper changing and all the demands of having babies for anything in the world.  We’ve certainly moved on from little people issues and on to much bigger, scarier issues.  (Am I the only one that didn’t know that laughing gas is a thing?  And let’s not talk about those fruity, child-attracting e-cigarette flavours!)


I consider my kids to be tweens now.  My middle one just turned 12 last week, eldest and youngest turn 14 and 10 in about 3 weeks.  We’ve all survived another year and more than that they’ve all made real progress with their various pursuits.  I am very proud of them all, and I can’t wait for the school year to finish to celebrate!