I'm so tired of waking up for school and I'm not even the one going!

 

I'm so tired of waking up for school and I'm not even the one going!

30 April 2024

Oh my hat! Never has a statement been more true.

 

I remember my kids’ school days with vivid clarity. But here’s the funny thing. I never really minded it at all. Strange but true.

 

Waking up early, chasing kids around the house to get ready, ensuring they’ve had breakfast, nagging them to brush their teeth, reminding them to take everything needed for every school day with them, driving to and from school, sport and extra murals, and even packing school lunches. I just had to do it. Also, I could make things difficult for myself by hating the task and being grumpy about it. Bemoaning my fate. But surely my mood would affect theirs? And I’d end up paying the price for that even more by having to contend with miserable kids. And I always knew that it was a slice of time. And that in hindsight it would seem like it flew by.

 

And funny enough, but it did.

 

One of those the-days-are-long-but-the-years-are-short kinda things.

 

Now this doesn’t mean that internally I didn’t wish that I could actually sleep a little bit longer. Or avoid the morning chaos and rush. I even tried to find ways to alleviate this. By packing as much of the lunches as I could, the night before a school day. By trying my very best to ensure that the kids had everything they needed for the following school day. Their were uniforms at the ready. Sport’s clothes and the necessary assortment of cricket bats, hockey sticks, shin pads, gum guards, knee guards for dancing, musical instruments and anything else the following day entailed locked, loaded and ready to unleash in the morning.

 

I think it all boils down to attitude. And embracing where you’re at. Life is kind of like the ocean. It comes at you in steady waves. With the occasional spring tide and storm thrown in for good measure. And perhaps a bit of variety.

 

And isn’t it just so sweet what treasures you find, after a particularly stormy patch? Whether it be whilst trawling for sea glass along the beach.

 

Or even more importantly in life.