Basketball shoes

Tomorrow is the first day back to school. Basketball practice is at 7:15 so J has to be up by 5:45 to get ready and take the bus. Over the break we bought some basketball shoes. She's quite happy with them. While getting ready tonight she labels her shoes. The girls are partially excited and partially sad about the holidays being over. For me I am sad... the time went quickly and we had such a nice time being together as a family. The girls are all at ages where you can do things that you all like together. We had many a night staying up watching movies till far later than I'd ever thought to be up with them in the past. I'm sad now that it's time to go back to rush rush rush and often misunderstandings and just not enough time to really listen. All the homework, practices, errands, housework..... Why can't we always be on vacation??!!