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put the gin down, it’s here at last…

Its here, it has finally arrived. Hours, days, weeks of waiting have passed. Sometimes the agony of being patient has been almost too much to bear but my endurance has finally paid off and it has come.

To celebrate I have laid the table with the finest china and I have adorned the room with softly flickering candles. I have a bottle of wine chilling in the fridge and some chocolate hardening in the freezer. I have prepared our favourite meal and the Dominos chap should be bringing it in thirty to forty minutes. Should he who helped create them play his cards right tonight could be his lucky night because tonight is cause for celebration.

It’s here! It’s official, tonight is the night before the kids go back to school. They are asleep upstairs, uniforms beside them. School bags are packed, lunch is in the fridge, even the shoes have been given a once over with some pledge and a duster. From nine am tomorrow morning I am officially parent to one for six whole blissful hours and the twins are someone else’s to entertain.

I will be joining the post party parents in Tesco’s at ten, all of us suffering after tonight’s celebrations, but still we will dance in the aisles. Spinning our trolleys with reckless abandonment in the frozen veg section as we relish being able to load our baskets without stopping to referee a sibling argument. Grabbing a baguette as a mike I will lead the singing through the bakery section gleefully singing ‘I think we are alone now’ and leading a conga procession of mums and dads. Finally I will flip the bird to the wine and spirits section, no longer will this be my crutch. School is back I can face a day without my nip of gin in my morning tea.

It’s here, farewell to the holidays, welcome back teachers, they are all yours….

(And I don’t want to hear any talk of half term!)

Comments

  1. Helloitsgemma says

    September 5, 2011 at 6:31 pm

    Tomorrows post; how I was banned from my local tesco.
    All over the country there are teachers doing the opposite – spare a thought for them

    Reply
    • janeblackmore says

      September 5, 2011 at 6:34 pm

      They had six weeks off! I can’t summon the pity…

      Reply
  2. ChocOrangeCityMum says

    September 5, 2011 at 6:36 pm

    You big wimp, what a pair of powerful 5 year olds you have 😉

    Reply
    • janeblackmore says

      September 5, 2011 at 7:10 pm

      just wait you woman of non school age kids. Its all roses till 3.5! x

      Reply
  3. Steph says

    September 5, 2011 at 7:09 pm

    see you in Tesco 😉

    Reply
    • janeblackmore says

      September 5, 2011 at 7:10 pm

      you dancin?

      Reply
  4. helenprev says

    September 5, 2011 at 7:23 pm

    I have this fabulous vision now of the conga procession with the baguette in Tesco! Only one of mine goes back tomorrow; the other two on Wednesday – but the end is now in sight for sure!
    I have loved spending time with them this summer, but my sanity is fraying quite clearly at the edges now.

    Reply
    • janeblackmore says

      September 5, 2011 at 7:58 pm

      Same here, its nice to have a rest

      Reply
  5. Yvonne Keen says

    September 5, 2011 at 8:30 pm

    Lucky you! My two don’t go back until Wednesday. I am not sure how teachers can justify TWO inset days after over 6 weeks of holidays. Wouldn’t happen in any other profession!! But I will take your ideas for tonight and use them tomorrow night. Dominoes in High Wycombe take note, Tescos in High Wycombe be ready for me on Thursday and teachers at ***************** School, just be ready.

    Reply
    • janeblackmore says

      September 5, 2011 at 8:39 pm

      Lol! I may come to high wycombe just for spectator sport….

      Reply
  6. Maxxy says

    September 5, 2011 at 9:18 pm

    Haha love it! I’ve been reading friends status updates tonight saying sad to see the school holidays end and I’m thinking What? Are you all insane?! I’ve been buying sparkly hair clips and enough cheese strings to feed an army muwahaaing to myself quietly all day!! It’s like the night before Christmas, everything all set for getting back to some normality.. Woo hoo!! 🙂

    Reply
    • janeblackmore says

      September 5, 2011 at 9:33 pm

      Ha! That’s fabulous.

      Mine is same; where did last 6 weeks go? Over so soon. – what tosh! I love my kids but man I love school!

      Reply
  7. Katie says

    September 5, 2011 at 9:38 pm

    All I can muster is phewwwwwww!!! Thankyou for helping me through the last six weeks:-)

    Reply
    • janeblackmore says

      September 6, 2011 at 7:19 am

      Anytime!

      Reply
  8. Tiredwiredmum says

    September 6, 2011 at 6:16 am

    Your post made me laugh! Recognise the feelings !

    Reply
    • janeblackmore says

      September 6, 2011 at 7:20 am

      Thanks x

      Reply
  9. Bod for tea says

    September 6, 2011 at 6:18 am

    He he! Good for you. Enjoy the trolly twirling 😀

    Reply
    • janeblackmore says

      September 6, 2011 at 7:40 am

      Lol, I will..

      Reply
  10. The Mad House says

    September 6, 2011 at 6:37 am

    I have to say that I so enjoy the holidays now that the boys are older 6 and 5 knowing that they are going back, We make the most of our time together often doing nothing. But I agree with one thing I can not abide is shopping with them

    Reply
    • janeblackmore says

      September 6, 2011 at 7:44 am

      Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the holidays most of the time but tesco’s. *shivers*…..

      Reply
  11. mrsshortie says

    September 6, 2011 at 12:49 pm

    A great post – wish I had read this yesterday, I could have been partying away this morning!

    Reply
    • janeblackmore says

      September 6, 2011 at 1:35 pm

      I imagine the party will keep going a while….

      Reply
  12. Trouble Doubled (@trouble2plus2) says

    September 24, 2011 at 9:04 pm

    School holidays should be banned. But if they were, we’d never have that wonderful back to school feeling. Mmmm, torn…

    Reply
    • janeblackmore says

      September 25, 2011 at 2:29 pm

      Oh yes, split on that one!

      Reply

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