To be heartbroken the summers finished

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I don't want my kids to go back to school, I've loved living in this halcyon bubble and I'm heartbroken it's ending. Their childhood feels like a whisper in time, I just want to press pause for a while.

I miss them lots when they go back.

I miss the adventures & togetherness

A bit of both. I have delayed my summer burns reception start for a year. So I’m thankful for many things. However they have argued a lot and the house looks like a bombs gone off in a Lego factory. I’m looking forward to a biohazard level deep clean. And some silence too.

My youngest who starts reception is my last baby so waving her off will be extremely hard.

Yep finding it harder this year. Autumn seems slightly ominous. My DC have not argued for the first time this year and then did stuff together and we all chilled out.

I bought all there uniform today as I couldn't face doing it any earlier. I was lucky as there was only one embroidered cardigan left!

And one weird thing this year is the house is a shit tip but I really don't care and I am not at all stressed by it!

*their

one of the many reasons i home educate

Even for a rose garden - there has to be a little rain sometime...

Nows the best time of year!, warm though not too hot days, atmosphere has done with all the pollen and fug from the harvested fields.

Lovely:)

Took grandson out today he starts proper school tomorrow aged 4 I am choked up about that. Time flies I have the last child going to uni. next week. I loved summers with my tribe, but when they were little I was a sahm, that probably makes a difference I did not have to rush out to work in the morning.

My littlest is starting reception and I am going to cry a lot. I will miss thr lie ins and spending more time with them. But I won't miss the mess or arguing or moaning that they're bored and spending all my money. So on balance..
I'm glad it's nearly over

Mine are 14-18 and I've had a fantastic 12 weeks with them. For much of it I have worked, and they've done summer camps and visited relatives, but we've also spent a lot of time together, and the lack of pressure has been wonderful.

But I'm ready for them to go back now. 12 weeks really was quite a long time.

to you MrsKoala.

I am going to miss them terribly. We have had the most awesome summer. I don’t know what I’m going to do with myself. I need to find a job or some volunteering or something.

@MrsKoala - I'm just going to hang around about 20 years until you tell us what fine people they've turned out to be.

I've been with dgd, the first time we've spent significant amounts of time together. It's been heaven. My last couple of days with her are coming up this week. I'm already looking forward to half term.

I always massively enjoyed the summer holidays with my children. We just had fun and cheap days out 😊We always booked a cheap holiday flying out to the the Balearic Islands near the end of the summer ...Happy days ..memories 💕

Mine go back on Wednesday and I've been counting down the days since three weeks ago.

My dc are lovely. They're very close and love playing with each other but they also argue like cat and dog and I feel like I'm constantly on edge waiting for the eruption.

They've recently started playing out with the other children on the street. My dd copes with this brilliantly and can play for hours without any issues but my ds really struggles socially and I feel like I'm constantly fire fighting when he's out there.

We've been for a few days out but ds gets to a point where he's had enough and then we have to go home before it all falls apart; this then means that dd feels bad because her day out has been cut short or has missed out on fun activities.

The house is a mess. We have hardly any food left and I have no money left to go and buy some. I'm not well and don't have the energy to be "on duty" the whole day without a break - at least at work I get an hour in the middle of the day where I'm usually completely left alone and then another half hour at home in silence before I pick my dc up from the childminder's.

Mine leaves home next week. End of an era.

Cheers Math, and Womaninthedark I will try not to disappoint you.

My friends have all had mixed summers, some full of bickering, others lots of fun. It’s all dependant on the kids and particularly the age gaps I think. Mine are just too close together and are so bored. By week 3 actual gladiatorial combat became a legitimate pastime.

If any of them were only children it would have been great. I always thought summers would be full of crafting and days out but instead it’s refereeing and misery.

I’m glad other people enjoy the summer hols tho. It gives me hope for the future.

I always loved the school holidays. I work, but took as much time off as possible to spend with my son - I was always so sad when he went back to school.

I do like the school holidays, not rushing around in the mornings, days tied to school run oclocks, no having to be anywhere etc. And we have had lots of fun. .

But am so ready for some peace and fucking quiet and not been spoken at. Mine are 15 and 5 so a big age gap so sometimes hard to find things they both want to do.

Am mostly looking forward to that 20 minutes when you get back from drop off and you just sit with a coffee and it's quiet. And peaceful. And no one is mithering for drinks, snacks, lunch, breakfast number 2, asking a billion questions and climbing on me.

And that's just the 15 year old 😁

Me too and my youngest starts school on Monday 😭😭 I love having them at home and am always sad at the end of the holidays. Nice to know I'm not the only one

I miss not rushing round in the mornings, days out, no washing uniforms, seeing more of them throughout the day but I couldn't afford to have them off all year. I have spent a lot.

Yanbu.
We've had a great summer, dds had days out and spent time with family she hardly ever sees.
We've laughed lots, played lots and spent lots.
I love spending time with dd shes hilarious. I cant wait for October half term 😁

Thank you so much for the supportive posts and I'm sorry to hear about those who have had challenging summers.

I no longer feel that iabu, they have gone back to school today, I dropped off some keen, interested fun people and collected some mardy disinterested horrors.. Roll on half term.

I agree with you, I hated mine going back, even though they did fight and argue, we had the best time. I loved the time we spent together.
Take it from me, time really does fly, mine are adults now, we have a great relationship, but you cant beat the mother and child phase, I really miss those days.