Winding Down....

Can you feel it?

It is the sound of the school year winding down.

And yes, I realize that it is only February, and the kids have 4 more months of school left. (And more than that if they live up north where it has been snowing constantly since November!)

I am being selfish here.  The school year is winding down for me as a mommy volunteer for the school.  And I am GLAD.  I am getting really burned out.  And I don't even do all that much.

I am room parent for both Princess's and Prince's classes.  I am also Room Parent Coordinator.  This is just a fancy way of saying that I email the school's room parents and rally them into action when need be.

I try to be optimistic.

I try to be enthusiastic.

It is hard to be that happy, optimistic and enthusiastic people when the people I work with are not.

And I understand.  Our school is unique.  There are huge efforts by the PTA to raise money for our school.  Our parent involvement is out of this world.  We have three big fundraisers over the course of the school year.  We have a "just send in a donation" fund raiser at the beginning of the school year, a School Festival in the fall and a silent auction in the spring.  These fund raisers bring in enough money to fund a science lab and a part-time sciece teacher and a computer lab with full-time teacher.

Yeah, pretty amaing.

But if the same people have a heavy hand in each of these activities, it is a recipe for burn out.

Kind of like what I am feeling right now.

The Silent Auction will be over on March 6th.  (And there was much rejoicing - yea!)

Now, I need to decide how involved I want to be next year.  There is a rumor going around that the PTA folks want to do away with our fall festival.  The kids love this thing - even though this year it was evil-ly scheduled on Halloween.  It brings in about $14,000 for the school.  The issue?  No one stepped up to run the thing so it fell to the PTA President who is, I am sure, already quite busy.

I will have three kids in school next year: Kinder, 2nd and 4th.

With only one kid at home, it would be fairly easy to step up and take this on.  Duke will not be in any sort of daycare/mom's day out program so there is really no schedule for us outside of the gym..  It's been a long time since I only had one kid at home.

Sigh.  I guess if I could consider doing something like this at the end of a very busy school year when my own enthusiasm is waning, it might be a viable idea.  Plus I have two women in mind who could help me.

One good thing about doing this is that it is over in mid-October.

Hmmm....