Going Back To School...

And so a new schedule starts...

Since cross country practice starts next week, J needs to start getting to bed at a decent hour and waking up early. For the first week, practices are at 8am then in the afternoons after that. For the girl that hasn't gone to bed earlier than midnight to 3am all summer, waking up at 7am is going to be tough. But she has to get used to it. I just hope she is still as interested in cross country now as she was when she first mentioned it. We don't think she realizes that it will be a lot of work. Too bad she will already have started before she decides what she wants to do - costing us money in the long run.

Hubby says the only way she can quit is if her grades slip, which is more than likely going to happen. I shouldn't be so negative, but this girl is more interested in boys and friends than she is about buckling down and focusing on what she really needs to do. This girl has proven to us time and time again that she is capable of getting good grades (A's & B's). Too bad we had to take away her phone, her iPod, her computer time, her friends, everything in order for her to do that. Why do we have to basically jail her in order for her to study? It is the one thing that her mother always did, and the one thing she absolutely hated, therefore we don't want to have to do that, but what if we have no choice? Sadly since hubby is gone Sundays through Thursdays, I get to be the bad guy, the one that has to follow up on everything that she is supposed to be doing.

I just don't understand why it has to be this hard. Wait, its hard because its parenting. The one job we never get instruction manuals with. Oh well, this is our crash course so we have some idea what to do with E when she becomes a teen. Scary thoughts!