Spring break is over...sniff sniff....

I miss spring break. It's day three of the kids being back at school from having 2 weeks off. Where's the noise? Where's the constant mess on the kitchen counters? Why isn't the timer going off to signal the end of one kid's time on the video games, and the start of the next kid's time? Why isn't the door slamming and mud being tracked through the house? What is that I hear? The sound of music I chose being played while I work. Shocking! How did spring break go by so quickly?

I took the first week of the break off from work and got everyone caught up on dentist, doctor and various other specialists appointments. Oh don't get me wrong, I had big plans...my windows were going to be washed, I would sort through all the kids' clothes, my clothes, the shoes, and I even dreamed of putting away all the winter coats, boots, mitts, and other seasonal paraphernalia. Oh and I would also get all the files ready for the accountant for income tax. Did any of that get done? Well, um, not exactly.

I did manage to sort through all my shoes and take a substantial quantity to the thrift shop. What was I thinking buying red dress pumps? When would I ever have an occasion to wear them? I seem to recall a phase of watching "What Not to Wear" with Stacey and Clinton insisting that everyone needs a shoe with "a pop of colour". Clearly, I blame the media for influencing my purchases. And neither of my daughters would be caught dead wearing them either.

I had every intention of cleaning my windows, but there always seemed something better to do. Like take my kids on a hike up the mountain, or lie on the couch reading a book that usually ended up in a power nap. Oh and I did manage to clean out my entry way closets of the winter stuff that never really got used because we had so little snow this year. Phew! That was at least 30 minutes of my life.

And then somehow the week off was over, and I'm not sure how that went by so quickly, and yet so unproductively. Strange.