well 12 days to go. The craziness of school is starting soon. Got the supplies bought and bagged up, got half the school clothes bought, need more and gotta get lunch boxes and hit the school picnic to meet the teacher. The damn braces are on da kid and the big deposit to my eternally vacationing ortho!

Not going to be the cakewalk it was last year. LOVED the teachers..

This year one child is going to be in a 7th grade class with the a non-God believing (who likes to make everyone aware of his nonbeliefs and doesn't hold back) environmental extremeist who will literally yell kids off of walking on ANY grass because "they are alive too", me being a former master gardener who had won a round of applause once in class for stating I was out to ELIMINATE as much grass as possible on my acre with garden beds, is gonna have a test this year with how high I can hold my temperment in. Not to mention he (I've heard) he will go way out of his way to catch flies and carry them outside. I wonder if its in the winter (cold here) he builds them an indoor habitat?

GOD HELP ME TO KEEP MY MOUTH SHUT-NINE MONTHS IT IS GOING TO BE VERY TOUGH-THE OTHER "TEST" WILL BE IN SEPT The school wants them on a environmental/team building (forcing kids to be friends with who them judge not friend material) on a trip to a camp-like thing for a week and my baby (youngest child) will then have her 13th birthday with the class and not her family - I'm so tired of feeling like schools are trying to force kids away from their family base at a younger and younger age...

ON the flip side my 8th grader will have his wonderful tough man teacher who he had last year, who plans on a 12 day trip (they will be SO sick of each other by then) this spring to wash dc and the appl. trails and stuff. I think it will be an educational year for him.

The other thing with the 7th grader is the way the class got divided, the man teacher in that class has a certain young gal (who I'm so (NOT)as to be having her chasing my 8th grader son, ha) who is so pretty/blond/tall (read nightmare) and could pass for 18 not 13 if she wanted, seems this teacher last year seemed so mesmerized by her, that quite a few of the kids in the class felt he let her run the show in this class. THEY SAY- NO ONE SAYS NO TO KELLY-UGH I've seen her basically act friendly to my daughter to gain access to my son.

Any one gotta a hole I can crawl in for the next nine months??