back to school anxiety time

Back to school is here. It’s everywhere. It’s in the commercials on TV and the radio. It’s in the advertisements at my local grocery store. I saw school buses on the way to work today. And I know my sister is prepping to send her kids off very soon. My mom teaches and she is also starting back to school soon.

I hate back to school. I don’t want to see ads for backpacks and 5-star notebooks on TV. I don’t want to compete with lumbering school buses that slow me down during my morning commute to work. I don’t want to admit that days are getting shorter and the morning air is getting crisper with that back-to-school smell to it.

It all culminated for me last night because it was not only “back to school”, but it was a Sunday. And the two together are pretty unbearable. I did not sleep well. No shocker there.

I don’t know why I still get that awful, uneasy feeling about school and Sundays. But I do. I am not in school anymore. I survived. But, wow, those feelings of panic and ickiness linger. How am I going to handle myself once I have kids? The Sunday routine of making lunches and doing homework and picking out an outfit. Too much! Too much!

But I guess it’s really no different than getting ready to go to work, right? Sunday nights are just blah all around, then.

So, how do you ease that back-to-school Sunday anxiety feeling? What works for you? Do you have a set routine that helps? Or do you live in Sunday denial like me?

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