Since having a child in preschool (whoa...2 whole years!), I've always hated the beginning of the school year. It's $10 here, $20 there, and on and on until you are just bone dry of any form of currency. I never expected the end of the school year to be like that as well, but after field trip money, fundraiser money (which of course I end up buying myself because I'm too lazy to sell to someone else), CAP and GOWN money for his little graduation, of course tuition, and I'm betting my bottom dollar (no pun intended) that at least 2 more things will come up before we are officially out of school in 3 weeks, things are spiraling out of control. Not to mention I had planned on doing teacher gifts ( 3 for Southern Boy, 2 for Southern Girl - but Southern Girl's MWF babysitter is also Southern Boy's TT teacher, it's all confusing, but I'm just doing 1 "nice" gift for her) Then of course there's the co-pay for the starting school physical Southern Boy has to have. AND I have to send off for Southern Boy's birth certificate, since I haven't done that yet (and while I'm at it, I'm going to get Southern Girl's, too. I really meant to do that last week!)
I would say being a Mom is hard, but damnit, being a grown-up is hard. I am so envious of those days that I had NO care in the world.