Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Chat

Join the discussion and chat with other Mumsnetters about everyday life, relationships and parenting.

Original poster

10pm the night before back to school: am I the only one?

127 replies

PorridgeAgainAbney · 03/09/2019 21:58

Fuckety fucksticks, WHY have I left it until tonight to fill in the Health Care Plan, consisting of 28,000 forms that have to be handwritten, with each box being so miniscule you can barely fit "see separate note" in it, and each form duplicating approx 75% of what was on the form you filled in last?

PLEASE tell me you are squinting like a mole trying to sew 200 name tapes, or emptying every cupboard in the house looking for a school tie...I'm not the only disgracefully disorganised slattern am I? Blush

OP posts:
avamiah · 04/09/2019 03:08

MyGhastlsFlabbered,
No no no
That’s 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱💀💀💀💀

AdalindMeisner · 04/09/2019 03:12

My daughter doesn't go to school until next week (starting reception) but I have forgotten to order her school milk, I had to order by 5pm yesterday (Tuesday) and it had totally slipped my mind. Ffs. I can order in time for following week but geez, the kid hadn't even started and I'm disorganised.

avamiah · 04/09/2019 03:19

AdalindMeisner,
Oh I remember those days so well and now my baby is going into year 5 .

AdalindMeisner · 04/09/2019 03:35

Goes too fast, my older child started college this week, was kind of hoping the second one going to school I would be more organised...no such luck! I also order school jumpers but they are too big so she will be in generic ones until I can get smaller ones. (we didn't get her place until late on as she was on the waiting list so didn't have time to get more - that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!)

SnowsInWater · 04/09/2019 04:36

If it makes anyone feel better here in Aus most school kids have two totally separate uniforms; Summer uniform is worn in Terms 1 and 4, Winter in Terms 2 and 3 so we have the "where is it/does it fit" drama twice a year (though not at the moment as we are mid term).

Mitebiteatnite · 04/09/2019 08:15

I had all new uniform washed and ironed by 9 last night. DD (12) put on her new trousers this morning and they skim her ankles. Turns out I'd bought the short length. Luckily she said 'I like them like that mum' Grin

I bought a Dymo LetraTag from Aldi last week, and a stash of plain white and Iron on labels. So much easier, just print out what you need as and when. No more 'oh crap I didn't order labels!' panics. It was £15 and the refills are about £4, but it saves me so much stress.

Chocolatedaim · 04/09/2019 08:18

My Dd starts reception next Wednesday. I thought I had been organised but then remembered I haven’t ordered P.E kit or name labels. Thankfully Amazon Prime and Sainsbury’s online have got my back!

AnnonniMoose · 04/09/2019 09:31

Well that was a fun morning! First day of high school (we live in the arse end of nowhere so reliant on the one single school bus that runs per day), it's pissing it down and the bloody bus is 30 minutes late. The village is gridlocked, so those poor nervous children will get to school on their first day over an hour late Sad.

Luckily I had waited to see if my DC got on the bus safely, so when the bus was 15 minutes late I drove them to school instead, so at least they were only 20 minutes late.

happypotamus · 04/09/2019 09:52

DD1 went back today. At 6pm yesterday I asked her to check that her PE kit was where I thought it had been for the past 5 weeks. I was sure I remembered washing it and putting it back in her bag and hanging it on the hook in her room. It wasn't there. Cue me ranting and searching the house in a panic, found the shorts in a drawer, had ordered new plimsolls as her feet have grown but no idea where the logoed p.e t-shirt or the bag might be. Just as I was about to give up with the thought that they surely won't do p.e on the first day, she finds the bag stuffed in a corner under some other stuff (she claims DH put it there), I find a t-shirt that we had been given by a neighbour with an older child at the same school that isn't quite the right size but will do.
I haven't labelled anything in year. I write her name on in biro and redo it if necessary after washing. I don't have the time for sewing. I have a pile of about 8 Brownie badges to sew on for Monday.
We went to get shoes last week. I was really surprised by how empty John Lewis shoe department was.
DD2 starts Reception on Monday. I think I have found enough uniform either that DD1 has grown out of or bought new for her, but need to iron it. Also need to persuade her to get over her refusal to wear any clothes with buttons because she has to wear a shirt. Am hoping it is still the case that they don't do PE for the first few weeks of Reception because I haven't bought her a pe kit, couldn't afford anymore logoed stuff after I bought the cardigans for both of them and don't know where to get shorts in the right colour from.
Adalind you just reminded me that I also didn't do the online milk ordering thing. I assume it is too late now for me too. DD2 will be very unhappy as she basically only drinks milk.

Oldraver · 04/09/2019 10:21

8am

Muuum all my blazer pockets are sewn up

Muuum where is my timetable

RickOShay · 04/09/2019 10:49

Grin grandcentral. That’s so funny!
We survived, but ds1’s schoolbag smells like something died in there, which is a distinct possibility.

WellTidy · 04/09/2019 10:55

Congratulating myself something chronic as i'd bought everything, and i mean everything, in the summer and got them name taped and felt completely sorted

Last night I was trying to help Ds get himself organised as he has just started Year 7, and the amount of PE kit is ridiculous, so offered to pack his sports bag

Which of course he took me up on

As i was walking to work this morning, and he was already on the bus, i remembered that boys rugby kit includes socks and shin pads. which I had not packed. boys games kit and me not being that well acquainted

DH is dropping the socks and shin pads off at school later

I think it would be better all round if DS packed his games bag next time!

RB68 · 04/09/2019 11:01

@AnnonniMoose DDs first day in yr 7 bus was a) late and b) then held up in more traffic and she arrived late to school. I watched her parent pay account to make sure she got ther (they have a break time around 10.45) so I knew she was there and getting food. I then get a phone call about 3pm asking where she is and was she coming to school...... I am glad I was stalking her as it would have given me kittens otherwise.... basically she had missed registration because of the bus issue and it too them that long to realise. I took great pleasure in telling them what I thought about the system!!

AnnonniMoose · 04/09/2019 11:20

@RB68 - Eeeek. I did phone the school to make sure they took into account buses being late (we're very rural and the bus makes stops along numerous tiny villages with no transport links). She said yes, but the children would be marked as authorised late. She also suggested I phone the bus company to complain.

AnnonniMoose · 04/09/2019 11:28

Because going from a primary school with under 100 children to a high school with over 2,000 students isn't already stressful enough Sad.

Kalim8 · 04/09/2019 11:35

I was writing names in jackets whilst the kids were wearing them this morning.

Also super short wash cycle used at 630 this morning for some pe kit (I did have extra, honest, but the sad forgotten articles are a better fit).

Cracked open a pack of sketching pencils so they could each have a couple, and raided the art box for rulers (both with stencils). We must have at least 10 rulers left over in unclaimed party bags but I don't know where they are.

I think of it as an exercise in creative problem solving.

WhatHaveIFound · 04/09/2019 11:43

DS (Y10) is back to school this morning. I'm teaching him to be self reliant by doing bugger all for him (apart from buying new shoes). I just got fed up of nagging him last year so tough mum mode started today.

So i have no idea if he sorted his pencil case, sports bag or subject folders. He did at least check him timetable online so he knows he doesn't have games today.

A brief glance before he left the house confirmed that his uniform still fits him.

RB68 · 04/09/2019 11:49

@AnnonniMoose we are the same rural hamlet not even village - her primary had 86 when she started and 130 when she left - 15 in the yr group and her bestie went to a different school... secondary not quite so big - around 1200 but it was a big change

Kalim8 · 04/09/2019 14:35

The kids would be missing PE footwear if it was down to Dh, apparently he didn't know that trainers and plimsolls are 2 different things Hmm

Cuddlysnowleopard · 04/09/2019 16:41

DS2 cleared out his school bag yesterday, and found a Mars Bar he'd won on the last day of term.

AnnonniMoose · 04/09/2019 16:52

@Kalim8 - Well, my two will be wearing their plimsolls on Friday, as I only remembered about bloody PE trainers late last night (thanks to this thread) and ordered some online. They will only arrive on Friday and the DC have PE on Friday. Oh well, they'll survive Grin.

Kalim8 · 04/09/2019 16:54

They will indeed survive (& snowleopard's Ds Mars bar find sounds like a win!)

Crunchymum · 04/09/2019 17:03

It was raining this morning so I had to rethink the summer uniform I'd planned. Had to iron a polo shirt for under a jumper at the eleventh hour.

Always do the packed lunch in the morning though.

Crunchymum · 04/09/2019 17:05

Oh and the school shoes have gone awol in the post so it was boots today. And then she changed into plimsols when it warmed up and she could have gone in the fucking summer uniform anyway

Oblomov19 · 04/09/2019 17:45

I learnt years ago. The hard way. Now I do it all by mid July.