I got a lot of “likes” and “Amens” on Facebook the other day for sighing, “I need a summer.”
You too?
School gets out very late here in northern Virginia. Like, end-of-June late. I’m always craving summer by the time we limp across the finish line—the morning routine gets later and later; the lunches I pack get more and more half-a**ed. “Eh… why don’t you just buy your lunch, honey. Again.”
The problem is, for a working parent whose kids do swim team, summer isn’t all that different than the school year. Just hotter, and with wet bathing suits draped over all the furniture. Plus, with kids in day camps, we still have to pack lunches each morning. There is no justice!
But some of the non-summer-ness is self-imposed. I took on more than I should. So for the next month or so, my stop-doing list will include blogging. I might still pop in, especially when the Sabbath Supplementals are done. But otherwise, August will be a month of extended tech Sabbath.
See you in September…
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Photo Credit: Fingal’s Cave, with the isle of Iona in the background. Steffen M. Boelaars via photopin cc
That’s good. By the way, I recognize Staffa (the other Isle) - that’s cool, too - especially the puffins and cairn-gorm (piles of rocks above, not the cave).
Oh, we will miss you — but enjoy!
To survive our recent move to Chicago and sell the house and pack the house and find a house and unpack the house, I have had to shift to a blog-when-it’s-fun-not-just-because-it’s-a-new-day mindset for most of this year. I told myself every time I felt guilty about it that I would blog everyday once we were in Chicago. Of course, now that we’re here, I’m exhausted and need a break, and the Six-Year-Old, who is marvelously adaptable in general, is making it pretty clear that she needs a fair amount of help adjusting. Being with the Six-Year-Old seems more important than writing about being with the Six-Year-Old, so my blogging remains a strictly for fun-endeavor until school starts after Labor Day.
It’s kind of nice, actually. Taking time out to enjoy life while the weather’s still lovely. There’s plenty of time to blog when the cold rainy snowy grimness begins.
Enjoy your time to recharge.