Back to School

Media Girl heads back to school today. The first day of her senior year in high school. Where does the time go?

Of course this means Motivated Mom and I will have homework tonight - forms of all kinds to complete. Emergency contact info, authorizations to participate in functions off of the school grounds, offers for life insurance, etc.

At least it won't be as bad as when we had two children who were in both elementary school and after school childcare. Back then it was emergency contact forms in triplicate (not carbon copy but three separate and distinctly colored forms requiring completion of the same data) health histories, checks for lunches and snacks. All of this was required for school and childcare both. So we were looking at four informational packets.

Motivated Mom and I never could figure out why the information couldn't be entered into a database and reprinted or forwarded as needed. Computers were fairly commonplace after all.

Looking back on those times, I can't imagine what it would have been like to have had three or four children in school at the same time. Either Motivated Mom or I would have had to take a vacation day in order to get all the paperwork completed.