Spring Break! You, Too, Can Work Your Kiester Off

It's spring break this week, a wondrous full week of no school for my kids and twelve times as much work for me. It's Monday at 1pm, and already I've broken up 5 or 6 fights, done another load of barf covered laundry, confiscated three toys for the week and ate my breakfast an hour ago. It consisted of a couple of cookies and leftover chinese dumplings.

About that barf covered laundry, Nemo is driving me crazy, suddenly unable to do anything or to bear being in a room without me being within his line of sight for more than about 25 seconds. If forced to be without me, he screams and cries for me until he pukes, usually in my bed. He won't let BigDaddyFish stay with him instead, and it's making life a trifle difficult right now, as the other three do occasionally need my attention, not to mention all the other things I do in this house that need to happen, or else we'll end up on an episode of Dirty Jobs. It's some sort of extreme separation anxiety, he's horribly attached to me, and I don't know what to do about it. I regularly give him plenty of hugs and kisses and snuggle time, and he gets probably more of my undivided attention than he did before I weaned him. Any thoughts about this?

Anyway, when the kids came home on Friday they had a helpful flyer in their backpacks entitled "Just a Friendly Reminder" telling parents that there is no school 4/6 - 4/13 and that classes will resume on 4/14. Then below that is says "Don't forget to: Read    Write   Practice Facts   Relax!   Have Fun!" and I can't help but feel, with all that reading and writing and fact practicing going on, how on earth can they meet the demands to relax and have fun? I sure know I'm not.

Newish post up at DC Metro Moms about assessments, or the Maryland School Assessments in particular, and the mess they've made of classroom instruction, not to mention the values that their teaching our kids. I'd love your thoughts.

Comments

[Veronica]

Ugh, Amy used to do that. Scream until she'd vomit. It wasn't a fun time and it was the whole reason that CIO didn't work for us.

I feel your pain.

[Angi]

Sounds like my Monday, except the puke part, but Ava used to do that too. She would get mad & start coughing and then throw up, but it has been a while - thankfully! I can not believe it is only day two OR that I used to look forward to Spring Break with my kids...is it Monday yet?