Any one else counting down the days until their DC head back to school and uni??

[drivinmecrazy]

Feel a teensy bit mean admitting to that, but I can't wait!!
I'll get the house back to some order and shopping bills will shrink dramatically.
I love my DC but by god it's been a looong few months.

DD1 only came home beginning of august and due back to uni in three weeks but DD2 has been home since May (gcse year).

Just made the mistake, again, of taking my eldest to pick a few bits up at the supermarket. Went in wanting three things came out £41 lighter.

I really don't mind in the scale of things but it'll be wonderful to sit in an empty tidy kitchen for more than a 10 minute stretch

I don't think you'll be alone wanting the dc back in school 😁

I hate the school run. Takes me around 1hr 45 mins am and then again pm. So I'm not looking forward to that again

But, I've 3 dc who are eating me out of house and home. So I'll be glad to have them out the house for a few hours and get some peace

Nooooooo!!! I love them being home and I’m not looking forward to September! One will be going back in to Year 13 and the other has decided on a gap year and will be working from beginning of September. I’ve just started dealing with the fact that, due to the eldest having the gap year, they will both be leaving home, for uni, at the same time next autumn . I’m going to make the most of this next year and I’m going to have to get myself a while new life

I think the difficulty for me is that when DD1 went to uni two years ago we missed her dreadfully, but got into the rhythm of being a family of three.
DD1 is fiercely independent so we weren't forcing he out of the nest but that has created in itself issues.
Her wings are clipped when she's home and we are often at loggerheads over tiny things and DD2 is struggling not being queen of the roost and an 'only child' so lots of sibling rivalry/jealousy.
I'm planning on enjoying the next year before DD1 finishes in the summer and returns to us indefinitely while she works out what to do with her life.

Hell yeaH!!

Transition year ahead here, (year after Junior Cert - equivalent of GCSE's I think - then 5th and 6th years leading to Leaving Cert). So the ASD/ADHD, routine needing teen has a very unscripted, non-routine year ahead. With a lot of uncertainty due to covid, and also the nature of "you girls decide what you want to do and we'll organise it" that our school takes (DD CANNOT make decisions, EVER!!!).
She's eating me out of house and home, but won't eat what we cook so "needs" to be brought shopping every couple of days as there's no food in the house.....and she's being a right disrespectful madam to both DH and I (it's a teen thing, ASD thing, location thing, all rolled into 1).

And she needs to be brought to various training sessions all over the area almost daily as she has school, club and provincial training committments for 1 sport, and wants to do her other sport as often as possible. Both involve significant amounts of gear so she can't just go off on her bike herself...
And as for asking for any help around the house, how could we possibly be so cruel?! No, instead we must make sure that we read her mind on what clothes (that are tossed on the floor in her room, or the downstairs bathroom) are needed again urgently for the next session. And also keep track of the schedule because that is not something she is in any way responsible for....

I cannot wait for Monday....

It's tomorrow!

Tomorrow at 8.50am I will kiss my 7yo DD bye bye at the classroom door, give her a cheery wave then run home across the road, jump in the car and head to a cafe where I will sit and read in peace and quiet till I get bored.

Then head home to enjoy the rest of my day off in peace and quiet, may even have a nap before picking her up at 3pm.

Then back to work Thursday but at least I won't be trying to juggle conference calls while driving her to the annoyingly timed holiday club half an hour away.

I’m feeling a bit sad, it’s been nice having them at home. My youngest is starting secondary and I’m really going to miss the morning mum interaction. Also once the older ones were gone it was mine and dds time alone for an hour before the school drop. 😢. Sometimes wish time would stop and they could stay small forever.

@H1978 that was nice to read, I’m counting down the days until I’m not needed as a parent 😂

H1978 I agree, wish I could have kept them that age. A few hole different circle of hell when your cuddly child turns into an opinionated young adult that scorn everything that you have taught them to believe in 😔
I guess that's the definition of the circle of life, I remember being 20 and believing that my generation were the best thing since Jesus walked the earth 😂

Definitely not! I work in a school so if they're back
I have to go back