kindergarten

I am going back to kindergarten today. Really. Since I last posted (yes it's been a while, but I have been busy) I have taken more steps to fully embrace my current role as a full time stay at home mom/housewife. Rather than be totally sucked into the world of daytime television, bonbons, mindless housework hours, and late afternoon cocktails, I have carefully loaded my schedule so that my days are now structured enough to hopefully keep me out of trouble, keep my ass from getting too big, and keep my from becoming a full time closet mommy's little helper alcoholic. In other words, busy enough not to be bored. I have started doing before and after school care for 3 other little girls from our neighborhood, which in itself isn't terribly challenging, but does force to drag my butt out of bed every day with more urgency than I have when it's just my own family needing me up and around. Also keeps me from indulging in cocktail hour until later on, as I tell my husband and whoever else might be around that I am "working" and will wait till later for that glass of wine. Do I sound like a raging hard core drinker? Really I'm not. Honestly, it's pretty much my only vice, unless you count obsessive reading as a vice. My husband does....anyway. Then in addition to my new child care responsibilities, I felt the need to fill the yawing chasm of time between the morning school bell and the 3 o'clock bell with something other than just grocery shopping, cleaning bathrooms and doing laundry. So I applied and was hired to be the new noon hour supervisor for our school's kindergarten classes. Today is my first day. I am invited to attend their pot luck lunch, and meet the kids and parents for the first time. Then tomorrow I jump in for real, and every day Monday to Friday after that, for one hour each day. Again, I figure it will force me to structure my other big housewifely plans around my lunch time commitment, and possibly help motivate me to be more constructive with my time. Plus I think it will be frigging hilarious to spend lunchtime with the kindergarten kids every day. And as a bonus, I actually get paid to do this. So woohoo for me. I have to go make a whole bunch of sandwiches to take to the pot luck lunch today, so signing off for now.