Tuesdays Top Ten: Things to do with your time since the kids went back to school!

The kids are back in school...you've wrung the tears out of your hanky after watching the little darlings head off to the bus stop and posted their picture on Facebook with their school clothes on and lunch boxes in hand. But now you have all this time on your hands. What to do? Here's a few ideas...

10. Figure out how to put a parental block on the remote for Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, M-TV, and the Disney Channel.

9. Get the peanut butter and chewing gun out of the family pet’s hair.

8. Bone up on your math skills…homework is coming.

7. Save up for purchase of magazines, candy bars, discount cards, candles, and other assorted fund raiser items that you will be expected to sell and/or purchase.

6. Use those bath beads you got for Christmas in 2003.

5. Re-acquaint yourself with adults and adult conversation. Start slow…don’t strain your vocal cords. Remember to use your “inside” voice, instead of your “come back here so I can knock the taste out of your mouth” voice.

4. Plan a daytime menu that does not consist of popsicles, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and Chef Boyardee.

3. Call your child’s teacher and make sure the kids are actually going to school and that the teacher actually exists.

2. Burn this year’s summer clothes that fit so they don’t make a comeback next year as a perennial favorite that is way too tight and way too short.

1. Take a much deserved nap…they will be home around 3:30.