Tomorrow is the first day of school. I have my third grader’s backpack filled with supplies, including four dozen pencils and a box of tissues. Anymore, it seems we practically have to send in the inventory of Target when school begins.
I returned from the store at 10:30 p.m. and faced a dirty kitchen before I could even begin packing the backpack. I finished putting the groceries away, loading the dishwasher and sorting through supplies by 11:15 p.m.
Then I sat at the computer to check out what my teenagers’ schedule will be tomorrow and lo and behold (and gasp!), the formerly perfect online school shows that my students have no active courses, even though they have had active courses loaded for the past two months.
So, I guess we’ll stumble through tomorrow, which is fitting. Every year since we started K12.com, our starting date has been chaotic–usually, our supplies are late. This year, we have supplies but the internet portion is screwy. Sigh.
Maybe, a miracle will occur and tomorrow, the computer portion will be fine and dandy.
Meanwhile, my secret weapon for waking up the kids is in the refrigerator: bacon. I hope it works.
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Do you not know that you cannot have your cake and eat it ;-)… what can go wrong will go wrong. I hope your “wake up call” worked.
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LOL! We have a secret alarm clock too…I could go into the deepest corner of the basement, whisper the word “doughnut” into a pillow smooshed on my face, and my kids would stampede down two flights of stairs to ask “where????”
Good luck today.
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yes, hope your day was off to a wakeful start. lots of bacon, all of Target, and not too much stumbling!!
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Ooooooh, I can smell that bacon from Portland, haha! Even tho I can’t eat it, the scent of it still makes me drool. My neighbor Sharon brought over a bunch of big, fat tomatoes from her garden and I bought some good-quality bacon and made BLT’s for Dear Hubby and my daughter. You’d have thought they were manna from Heaven. Good luck on your first day…you’ll be in my prayers.
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mornin…I’m awake and at the table, can i have some bacon too?
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Bacon as a weapon. You are so my friend.
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So, you HAVE to let us know how the bacon works….we need to know these things.
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