Okay, normally when the kids are on winter break, Fishdog and I are at work during the day. For the last 7 years, the boys were either with a friend, at home with a sitter, or when they got old enough, they were at home by themselves. We would call and check on them and come home a few times a day to make sure the house hadn’t burned down.

All was right in the world.

This year, Fishdog and I are working from home. First of all, we’re trying to adjust to being at home all day together. It’s not been difficult really, because he’s downstairs, I’m upstairs, and we only see each other when we make an effort. Fishdog does seem to have a problem with stopping work. He has always been a bit of a workaholic, but he tended to come home around 7 most nights and if he needed to go back to work, he wouldn’t until after the kids go to bed. Now that his office is in the house, he seems to have lost that ability to leave the office. That might end up being a problem eventually….but that is NOT the point of this post. The kids are.

They have been home for 2 weeks now and we’ve been shut up in the house with them. It was rainy for several days, and now it’s bitterly cold. They won’t go outside! And they are driving us insane!

The funny thing is, I was convinced they went back to school on Monday, so I have been counting down the days. Fishdog said he thought they went back the 3rd, which is tomorrow, but I was convinced it was the 7th.

Thank God I was wrong. They go back tomorrow. They aren’t at all pleased about this fact, but I am jumping for joy. I need my routine back; especially since I have one more (small, I hope) round of revisions to do on Bite Me!

Go back to school, my little ones, so I can tolerate your annoying little asses sweet smiling faces again.