I have a dog eared "Baby Blues" comic strip pasted to my refrigerator that has been offending my kids as long as they have been able to read. In the first panel, the mother is dancing giddily around the room. In the second panel, she continues to dance, looking beatifically at the ceiling and completely ignoring her children.

In the third panel, the older daughter says, flatly, "I hate Mom's annual back-to-school dance."

The son replies: "I hope she pulls a muscle."

As we rounded the corner to the start of school this week after 10 weeks of summer vacation (but who's counting), the last three of those weeks on vacation and then me at home with the kids trying to work, I started my own jig around the room.

My kids started mumbling about how they hoped I pull a muscle.


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