put the gin down, it’s here at last…

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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!)

25 thoughts on “put the gin down, it’s here at last…”

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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!! 🙂

  10. 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

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