I don't know about any of you but I keep asking myself...Did it used to be this crazy last year?  I am referring to what I call the "Back to School Shuffle", in which me, myself and I proceed to reconfigure my family's life to the ever demanding fall schedule upon us.  All of a sudden, extra curricular activities are starting back up, my youngest is heading into 5 day a week preschool, and I am preparing for another semester at college.  Not to mention my full-time job.  Even though my oldest daughter goes to year-round school, I still feel the Back-to-School fever of everyone on the traditional calendar.  It's like I am awakening from this summer haze, in which everything had became so much simpler and easier...but before you know it, WHAM!  Back to reality.  I feel as if I have taken the summer for granted and forgotten how lucky I was for those few months.  I drive by retirement homes and envy how nice it must be to just sit still for a whole day (I know that it horrible!).  But before I feel too sorry for myself, I remember why we are doing what we are doing.  This time next year, I will have my degree and will be teaching school somewhere and my husband will also have graduated from college and hopefully have more suitable working hours so we can spend more time together.  We survive by sticking together and keeping our sense of humor.  We laugh at how we always seem to have to do everything the hard way, and we love every minute of it.