good morning and good day

today I am blogging first thing, taking the kids to school, coming home and not even entering the office until 1/2 of the laundry mountain is gone! Had a big PTO meeting last night, and between planning that meeting, assembling a teacher grant application and waiting for word on my ill grandfather (not so good), AND the fidgeting on the computer over the past few days ... the landscape around these parts is a little "rugged"!

PTO - the most frustrating responsibility that I have right now, and that is saying a lot. I am president of our group for five more months and am ready to be done! I don't even like the way that the PTO is, but I don't know how to solve it. My goal has always been to have a more open, more friendly, more engaging group ... but even when you have 30 people show up for a meeting, it feels like a failure when no one bothers to volunteer to head up or even help with an event. Why don't more people realize that we cannot continue to do all that is done without more help and participation. AARGH! Oh well, obviously the nature of PTO's in general - I have certainly read plenty of posts from the other side ... "I won't be part of our school's PTO/A because they are snooty moms who are power hungry" or "I don't want to be part of an organization, I just want to do my own thing for the school". All relevant points, but boy does it make it hard from the board side of things!

OK, vent over, day must begin!