and...go

It wasn't too long ago when I was ready to start letting go of some of the rules and practices and neuroses of Jake's babyhood.  Wasn't too long ago when the first day of summer was the day I was going to mark time with having more fun and less establishment.  Past the worries of major developmental delays, food allergies, and meltdowns due to schedule disruptions.

And now I'm starting to get ready to set up more rules and practices and establishments. 

This is the Summer Before School Starts.  One hundred and eight days before the first day of kindergarten.  Kindergarten starts September 12th.  Kindergarten starts at seven forty-five in the morning.  On September twelfth.  In one hundred and eight days.

It's time to curb the bad habits (the current one I can't stand is "yeah" instead of "yes".  Pronounced "yee-ah" or just "yee".  We aren't gangsters at home, he picked this up at school), start eating breakfast at home (Jake's preschool serves breakfast, kindergarten doesn't), getting up earlier (my alarm is currently set for 6:20, and even that is hard), get out of the house earlier (before 8am by mid-June, by 7:30 by mid-August is my goal), get to bed on time every night (7:30-8pm is what we try for, but things have been sort of inside out at the house for the past few months), and most importantly sort out all the emotions that go along with having a kindergartener in the house.  That is proving to be quite a task for both Jake and I.  More him.

Oh, and trying to remember to have a fun summer.

The last summer before the first day of kindergarten is weird for me.  I guess it's summer vacation, but one with a lot of stuff to be done.  Jake will stay at the same preschool all summer, though I think it's run more like camp than school after June 15th.  I'm not sure.  They have a curriculum and the price doesn't change and he stays with the same teachers, so I'm okay with whatever as long as he's having fun.

I have over 100 vacation hours saved up at work, and though I'm not under any sort of pressure to use them, I'm going to try and take at least two days a month off.  Preferably Tuesdays or Thursdays.  I'm probably the only person in the world who hates long weekends.  I also have about 75 sick hours waiting for me.  I think I am feeling a little greenish right now, as a matter of fact.

Cough, cough.