My kids call me Super Mom! (But only if I wear if my fleece blanket cape and talk all animated... Thought that counts!)

Good afternoon everyone! It is almost the end of July in the ever so muggy South Carolina heat. We all know what that means... The "calm" of summer or if you have kids like me, summer "vacation" is winding down.. The back to school train comes in a couple weeks and from then on it's homework, more activities, and holidays!!! Does that not sound like a TON OF FUN?!? Uh, No. My kids are going into the first and third grade AND I am currently four months pregnant with baby girl number three... So by the time Christmas comes, everyone I know will be all smiles and cheerful excited for the wonderful time of year while I sprawl on my couch in yoga pants and an extra large tee looking like the knock off version of Shamu. Yay Christmas!! :-/ But that's months from now. For the current time I have the joy of school supply shopping, clothes shopping and hearing which characters face will be on my kids' back packs this year... I wouldn't trade mother hood for anything in the world, but I never thought when I was younger that I would have SO MANY little things that would make up my many days of being a school mom. Wake up at 6:50am, make breakfast, make lunches, make sure homework and everything else is in the kids' bags ready to go, help my kids brush their hair and find their shoes, sign whatever form I didn't sign the night before, fill out a reading log, remind the kids to not forget their homework, get everything and everyone in the car, take the usual route, hit the five minute five way stop across from the school, wait to be directed into the parking lot, drop the kids off at the designated spot, wait for the crossing guard to give me the ok to pull out of the parking lot, back to the stop sign of five ways, and then back home. SOME days I would be lucky enough to crawl back into bed for an hour, but most of the time it was that "since you're already up, you're staying up" kind of thing. Afternoons varied from laundry and other house like fun to running errands and paying bills with the occasional lunch date with a friend from work. Then by 1:30pm it's back to school to sit in the car load zone with the few other early moms before the line wraps all the way down the street and around the corner. Did I mention school gets out at 2:30. So there is an HOUR five days a week, every week until school is over! Insane I know.. I had this feeling last year that it would be better for ME to wait an hour every day so that by the time my kids got outside, we could just GO instead of them waiting outside for my car to make it to the front of the line.. Yeah.. Definitely putting in a bus route request for this year! Imagine being super pregnant and having to hang out in a car just to BE there an hour early... I don't really see that working out for me this time around.. I also worked for a company for the last three years where I could go in and close so I could be there for my kids during the day. Talk about going crazy! I was able to eat dinner (on a good week) three MAYBE four nights a week.. The other nights I wouldn't make it home until 10:30 or 11:45. Not fun... It was a retail job too so by the time back to school started... It was down hill until February. This will be the first year in THREE YEARS where I actually get to STAY HOME on Thanksgiving and ENJOY the food I will spend all day making! Man that makes me want roasted turkey so bad... I left there a few months ago to get a good start on photography (harder to do on a limited schedule!) and haven't missed it that much at all. I put in my two weeks and then a week later, found out we were pregnant! Isn't that just the way the world works. It didn't come out the blue, I mean we were trying for months before that.. But when it didn't take immediately, or the next month, or the month after that... I kind of let it go and was ready to dive into business. They say good things come to those who wait AND things happen when you stop FOCUSING on them all the time... Indeed. :) I am probably the most impatient person in the world and so when I want something, I WANT IT THEN AND THERE. I'm learning to try to change that a little.. Three girls.. My poor husband. The first time I said I really, really wanted a girl... Got her. The second time went like this.. "Every girl needs a sister!".. Got her too... And now.. well, I'm just glad I kept a lot of their clothes! He says I'm creating a mini army of little Me's.. HA! She will have him wrapped just like the other two do.. Well, we covered a little scattered version of a few different things.. I'm actually a little sad that I can't have roast turkey for dinner tonight.. ANYWAY. This wraps up blog 1 from a super tired mommy. Good timing too (bathroom is calling me!) Here's to the start of.. Something. Thanks for hanging in there!!! -Super Mom