Things they don't tell you....kids going to school.

No one told me having my kids in school would actually be MUCH harder than having them at home all day.  It is one of those sneak attack things that I'm only just now realizing fully and wish I'd be more prepared for.  I was pondering this last night as I drove all around in 5:00 p.m. rush hour traffic trying to find Halloween "crap" for each kid to pass out in class.  The email arrived yesterday morning that the kids were suppose to have some sort of little thing to pass out to all their classmates on Halloween (not candy) (I can't swear I missed an earlier email, but this was the first I'd heard about it).  Yeah, irritating.  I had to go to three stores because of COURSE on the eve of Halloween everything was sold out.  It was slim pickings.  Anyway, an hour later and two bags of worthless plastic stuff later, I had what I needed, but I couldn't help think, "it was EASY when they stayed home all day."  I have friends who told me the opposite too...that it was great when your kids went to school because you got free time.  They left out the part about having to drive them to school, make lunches, deal with field trips, and the 5 million emails the school sends about events, holidays etc.  Does everyone's school do this?  It is driving me batty, I figured I had at least had another year or two before school became so involved, but apparently it starts in pre-school.  I might just need to quite my job JUST to coordinate their school activities :-).  Signed, ME {lv}