Bereft

School is back in full swing, and things are crazy. In fact, they’re crazier than normal. We’ve had alarms that quit working leading to madness as everybody tries to get ready in a rush. We’ve lost electricity and had to wash off in the dark…no showers to start our days. I’ve burned breakfast, not once, but twice due to lack of attention. Homework has already been lost…and we have no dog to blame it on.

In short, we’re losing our marbles with the start of this school year. I was telling my Mom about it, and she had very little sympathy for me. She has always questioned our sanity in having eight kids, since she had the relative sense to have only two. You’d think my Mom would side with me, but her closing comment to our last phone call was:

You were bereft of your senses when you had that many kids.

Thanks Mom!