Things that Make you go “Huh?”

For the second day in a row I have woken MAC up before I left for work.  She has been unhappy to have to get up so early, but has done it when I remind her that school starts in __ days.  I know that I have read studies that state that teenagers work better when they sleep later but school will be starting on Monday and that means she will have to be up and at school ready for the day by the time I have been waking her up!

I guess that tomorrow will be closer to 6:30 instead of 7 (which is going to be the time that we’ll have to leave the house!).  I have told her that I will drop her off so she only has to ride the bus home.  This means that I’ll have to be getting up earlier too!  ***Sigh***

Why high school starts so early and the elementary school (you know those kids that wake up at the crack of dawn!) starts so late I’ll never understand.  A lot of the parents I’ve spoken with have the same question, if the older kids do better if they sleep later why not start school later?  If they switched the High School and Elementary school times the kids would be working when they are really awake and there would still be time to do after school activities.

You would think the “powers that be” could figure this out.  Oh well, here's to the start of school!  :) 

A Summer of Growing

It has been much to long since I last blogged, please forgive me.  I have been trying to work a few things out in my head before I put them on the internet where as my mother says, “they’ll stay forever”.

It has been a pleasant summer here on the East Coast.  MAC has figured out that since she doesn’t have any place to be that she can sleep in as late as she wants, which most days is until well after 10am.  When school starts next week it is going to be hard for her to wake  up at 6am!  We have tried to get her to wake up and start her day a little earlier but she has been saying, “It’s Summer!”

She did the horse camp again this year for 4 days in July.  They said that they saw a lot of progress since last year and hoped that she would come back again next year.  She says that she really enjoyed it and even though she missed her father and I she would like to go back.  I think she enjoyed the tubing, boating, and swimming too.

She and I will be going to the high school on Friday to “check it out”.  We may get to meet the teachers if they’re in, and if nothing else we should get her schedule and be able to walk out where her classrooms are.  She starts on Monday (and luckily it will only be the 9^th graders).

I see so much more maturity in her and look forward to her moving forward!