Back to School Blues

If you’re raising children now, or if you’ve ever raised kids, you know about these Back to School Blues. They usually start to hit about mid-August every single year. The realization of summer break ending causes somewhat of a panic, spurring a race to get as much fun crammed into the last two weeks of freedom before it’s time to once again walk those halls. For some kids this is torture (or at least they make it seem that way). For some kids they can’t wait to go back. For most adults, they’re praying for that day to come.

Don’t get me wrong, I love each of my four children immensely, and I’...