My son just came up to me and said, "Amanda hit me four times." He repeated it when I didn’t respond.

He was followed shortly by Amanda who said, "The reason why I did it is he was making fun of my name."

The two continued their conversation without a word for me. Tattling is happening at light speed in my house this summer.

Frankly, if I were a child living in this house I would most likely be hitting someone as well. Grrrr. Alas, I’m an adult and so I must just prevent blood spill and complain to the Internet about the mysteries of children who misbehave and purposefully do things to tick one another off.

School starts Aug. 23. I was thinking of that as I read the various ad papers for school supplies. I should really get started and kind of spread out the horrible costs of buying supplies for four. I vividly remember last year when a cashier asked me if I was a teacher stocking up for my classroom. Nope, just a mother of four.

Can you believe the price of backpacks? Makes me wish I had stocked up last spring, but really I didn’t want to store them all year long.

And how in the heck can I go shopping for school clothes when we barely have enough room for all of the clothes the kids have now? We have a LOT of storage space for clothes, but these kids (especially the girls) have a ton of clothes. Yet they never seem to have anything to wear. Imagine that.

Unfortunately there’s still nearly four weeks of summer vacation. In the meantime, I’ll just be dreaming of that big yellow bus coming along and rescuing me.

Thanks for playing.