Summer Starts Now

Daydreaming about Summer in Blacksburg....

 I am sitting here with 50 minutes left of work for the school year and I thought I'd issue a press release.


Summer break for me begins tomorrow and ends August 10. Starting tomorrow I will:

• Get to eat a real breakfast, with my kids, and not munch a burnt toaster pastry at my desk.
• Get to be the one to take the kids to the library, the park, the nature center, or whereever else the universe instructs us to go.
• Not have to hear Miles tell me to stay in the morning, or watch him waving at me mournfully from the living room window.
• Not have to know that my family is only blocks away from me and be unable to join them
• No longer have to use, clean or sterilize my Medela PIS (HALLELUJAH). 
  

(By the way: we are making a NY trip in late June/early July and a MD trip in late July. Perhaps I will be so fortunate as to see some of my readers!)


On the other hand, starting tomorrow I will

• be in charge of ALL THE naptimes (HALP!!)
•  be cleaning pretty much whenever I'm not parenting.
• Have plenty of photo ops and probably a lot fewer opportunities to post photos. 
• Or read blogs
• Or update my status
• Or watch The Daily Show
• Or eat junk food
• Or write blog entries, for that matter.

Tomorrow I stop planning summer, making lists for summer, obsessing over summer baby carriers, pinning summer ideas on Pinterest (yes, I have joined the cult. Not that I think I'll be a very active member after tomorrow).

Tomorrow I start living summer. I'm not sure if I more want congratulations or prayers for strength!
(Both)



 "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."


Let's go!