Anyone else sad the holidays are nearly over?

[Redraptor]

I feel like the only one. I love the holidays, even with covid when we havent been able to do as much as usual. I just love having the kids at home. It feels like Everyone on social media is desperate to shove them out the door and into school

I'm hoping this last week goes as slowly as possible

@CountessFrog

It’s hard to imagine how you can be sad that the holidays are over when most children have had 5-6 months off school.

I do usually feel sad that the holidays are over. This year has been absolutely awful for children, and the last thing they needed was another six weeks holiday.

I wish they weren't nearly over because I was at work (out of the house) all the time my DCs were at home, they weren't off school because they had school work set during normal school hours and homework on top plus summer holiday homework which was equivalent to a full time job for six days - school estimated about 45-50 hours of work.

Add to that the fact that school is going to be anything but normal when they go back and it is a shame it's the end of the holidays, yes. I was amazed at the teacher up thread saying that they and their secondary aged children needed the normality of school so they were glad they were going back. Mine need the normality of school too but they will be getting anything but normality this term and probably not next either, if at all this academic year.

@JesusInTheCabbageVan

That made me laugh. I guess I'm happy with the holidays as DD is old enough to entertain herself. So no crafting required 👍

I'm a bit half and half. This was not the summer I had hoped for but due to covid I had no choice but to become a SAHM after working fulltime most of my life so the time with DC has been wonderful and challenging and at times downright horrific.

I love the impromptu escapades in the garden and the baking and even the minecraft discussions (to a point ) but I'm seeing asd ds1 slide backwards in his socialisation, ds2 is bouncing off of the walls and honestly yes , I would very much like to have some time to myself. So yeah , my view is basically the same as ddogs when faced with the prospect of a cuddle at the same time as her food is put down on the opposite side of the room.

Haha the crafting comment made me laugh. I wrote this post this morning while watching my dds make a birthday card for my mum 😂 I was enjoying a cuppa and thinking how much I'll miss this time

God no. They’ve been out of school for 5 months at this stage, I and they can’t wait to get back to some semblance of normality.

It’s not that I don’t enjoy spending time with the dc but dh and I also work full time (wfh since March). I suppose if the summer break is a break for the parents too and you get long lie ins and lazy days then yes, I can see why one might feel a pang but for us it’s involved a lot of juggling as we don’t have the option to take leave for that length of time. Roll on next Thursday I say!

@JesusInTheCabbageVan

Oy woman, I’m just back from a wholesome family bike ride, have mercy before you send me to the craft gulag There’s only so much wholesome I can do before I start to twitch!

Me , i always feel sad as it gets to the end of the summers hols , my daughter has loved being at home and despite the odd blip has been quite easy to be with .
Looking forward to half term !

Yes and no.

I have loved spending so much time with DD who's 6 and seems to learn something new and funny every day. But she is so ready to be back at school and to spend time with her friends.

We're in Leicester so have been in extended lockdown with no or limited social interaction since March, playgrounds have only just started opening outside of the city in the last few days, all the ones in the city are still locked so she's bored.

She's back in on Wednesday and I think it will be a bit nerve wracking for all of us, with the potential for a few tears on drop off but I hope she'll enjoy the day and feel better for seeing her friends.

It will be weird for me and DH as we've not had a minute where she's not with us since March and now we'll be working from home while she's at school.

@Spudlet Your plea for clemency is noted. How about baking instead? Your youngest and/or clumsiest child can sift the flour.

Normally I hate the end of the 6 weeks (though it’s always 7 weeks round here ) but this year I am counting down to the 2nd, my kids have had enough of each other and me.

We have all loved the time at home, and I always love the long summer holidays.

Nope not sad, not "happy" either, just it is what it is.

Working from home on my sofa has not been great, so I quite like that there is an end in sight.

I can't wait

I'm usually in the sad camp but this summer been really quiet and all the things we had planned couldn't happen.

I do enjoy having them around and changes coming up will mean less time in summer with them going forward but still think they need to go back even if it's not "normal" it's more normal than now.

We’ve had a lovely summer and lockdown in general, but it’s time for some normality. DS is starting year 7 at a Grammar school and he found out he’d passed at the beginning October so he’s be ready and waiting for nearly a whole year! His bag is literally packed and ready to go 😂

No - desparate for DD to get back and have some chance of passing her GCSEs next year - because its quite clear than the government don't really give a toss about children at state schools exam chances.

@JesusInTheCabbageVan

I will give this due consideration Me’Lud, just as soon as I’ve scraped the chocolate buttercream off the ceiling from the last time DS had a go with the electric whisk 😬

However we have been on a lovely family walk along a river this afternoon, with stones thrown into the water for the plops, imaginative conversations about whether DSs favourite book character was likely to be around (nope), and only one romantic picnic interrupted by our very wet, deaf and friendly dog 🙈 Fortunately the star-crossed lovers thought he was cute...

I always feel so sad reading theses posts. Everyone talks about looking forward to the long lies, lazy days of the holidays. I'm amazed at all the posters who have the 6 weeks of summer off! Do you have term time working or not work? The school summer holidays is still a working time for me. It therefore makes no difference really to me and I can't relate to this at all.

It's been hard working full time at the kitchen table where my primary school children were also learning (supposedly). I've spent more time shushing them for zoom calls than i have hanging out with them. We've had some steps toward normality with dance and swimming reopening and the positive impact of this on my dc has been immense. Roll on next week!

I am enjoying the last few days, but there's been hard day's too.

People's experiences of lockdown will vary greatly. Not everyone wants to 'shove their kids out to school',but OP, you have no idea what the last 6 months have been like for others.

A sahm of 1 versus a full time working mum of 4 will have vastly different perceptions of this time, so too introverts Vs extroverts.

Makes no difference to me because I work so I'm not home anyway.

@Bairnsmum05 I'm in the same boat, I work (can't WFH) so summer holidays are no different, I just drop DS off at holiday club instead of school!

Me!! I love having them at home!!!

@Waxonwaxoff0 I hear you!!

@Bairnsmum05 totally agree I've had to spend most of the holidays working and the guilt I feel is immense !!