It’s second semester of preschool for both my girls. This September, the now-five year old will be attending kindergarten.
My whole goal this year was to make a couple mommy friends before we all go to kindergarten so I wouldn’t be the only a-hole in my town that doesn’t know anyone after living here seven years.
So I made a couple friends. That live in my town. Come to find out it’s OVER THE IMAGINARY LINE so they’ll be going to the school that’s located in a different town.
My first thought was, “All that work, wasted.” Because I’m an asshat that thinks about how easy it is to be friends with someone. If you’re a hassle to be friends with, I assure you, we won’t be talking all that often. Nothing personal, I’m just not looking for friendships that need the writers of Grey’s Anatomy to script the phone calls.
Of course, if you sound like any of the cast members of Scrubs, call me the hell up already!
Ok, I know you’re just here to hear how I broke my kids. The thing is, I haven’t yet. I’m about to, though. Because I found out a few things, and they’re very timely.
- My four year old is going to be too tall to be a great gymnast. So this is all for fun, and there are no scholarships in the offing. Which kind of makes it a waste of my time to drive her. Luckily, she looks wicked cute on the balance beam, so that’s buying her some time. (Yes, I know she’s too tall. No, really. I found it out and I promise it’s really true. Feel free to disagree. She’s going to be 5′9″ because everyone in both our families is that height or taller and she’s already tall.)
- June we have to renew our Taekwando membership for the kids. It’s like two grand for a year (plus a “belt fee” for a new belt every six weeks – you know that bugs me LOL). They are not loving Taekwondo two thousand dollars worth. Just sayin’
- Dance class will continue because it makes sense. But art class? We shall see.
My kids are used to being in school and having really cool activities they look forward to almost every day of the week…but in order to get back on track with the debt payoff and investment strategy…the kids are going to have to give some shit up.
So they’ll be sad. Because they won’t look at what they have, they’ll look at what they’re losing. I have about six months to figure out how to turn that perception around or I’ll just take them out of everything until they’re used to it then add something back in.
Plus, I generally don’t believe in activities that don’t have college scholarship potential. Just in case they want higher education.
