Tomorrow night is parent orientation at school. How did this happen? I feel like I must have fallen asleep or something because it cannot possibly be the end of summer. Are my kids really a whole entire year older? Is Em really going to be 2 in 2 weeks? GOOD GOD!

People always tell you about the speed of time once you have kids, but until you go there, there really is no way to explain it. It’s amazingly selective too. Think about it. An entire summer is gone in the blink of an eye, yet potty training as a process still manages to seem endless. WTF?

Two short years ago I was dropping At-man off for his first day of pre-school while Em wiggled around in my belly. Every morning I would waddle in with At-man all the teachers would gather, shocked that I was back. “You haven’t had that baby yet?” Obviously not, but I was up for engaging in polite conversation. Anything to stall my having to leave my little peanut at school and drive off all by myself.

Next week Em starts that very same class. Hopefully the mark left by his brother won’t be too hard to overcome. Even harder to deal with is the fact that At-man is starting his very last year of pre-school. I just cannot believe my little peanut is only a year away from “big boy” school. It’s still an entire year away and I am already having nightmares about not picking the right school, missing deadlines and registering at the wrong place.

I am so pitiful. I can’t even think about this anymore. We haven’t even started 4 year old class and I am sitting here at my computer getting all misty imagining move-in day at UNC 14 years from now. I am going to eat my lunch and think happy thoughts about 4. I love 4, and I don’t want to get ahead of myself worrying about the future so much that I don’t get to enjoy 4 as much as humanly possible. Happy thoughts…Happy thoughts…Happy thoughts……mmmmmm.

1. Birthdays…Mine, my father in law, Dean, a school friend of Atticus and a playgroup buddy. Not to mention Em in another 2 weeks, only after a couple more friends.

2. The unfortunate passing and or injury of several people not necessarily close yet close enough to others around us to set things off kilter.

3. The switching of my afternoon runs to early morning runs. I have so much more time with the kids during the day, yet lose consciences almost the instant my ass hits the couch at night. Since night time after the kids were asleep was my usual blogging time I am still trying to re-adjust.

4. Cakes.

5. Soccer. I am officially a soccer mom!

6. The impending start of school and the many casseroles that come with it.

Now that you have my reasons, I promise to try harder. Really.

It’s really hard to be innovative with music videos at this point. I’m glad someone like OK Go finally stepped up to the plate.