Don't get me wrong; I love summer. No hating involved. It's the summer vacation part of summer that I have serious doubts about, and this summer vacation has been worse than usual because my kids got out of school in mid-May. And they don't go back until the end of August. That makes for a LONG break from school.
I love summer vacation because my kids are home from school, which is exactly the reason why I hate summer vacation. And maybe I'm just not a resourceful, patient mom (okay, so I'm NOT patient, that's a given) but even though they do chores every day, they don't do enough to cancel out the negative effects of their activities on a home. For example: Parker sweeps the kitchen floor on a given day. Great! Then 4 sets of feet going in and out, eating lunch, doing crafts, etc. return the kitchen floor to it's natural "decorated" state within approximately the same amount of time it took him to sweep.
So, to avoid the above scenario, I try to get out and go places to entertain the troops. But that also causes stress because I'm not at home to do all the other chores and to-dos I have. Laundry doesn't get done. Bills don't get paid. Blogs don't get updated.
Now, I'm sure few of you have these problems, and I'm still learning to more efficiently utilize child labor, but this is the stuff of my life right now. And, I'll admit that I'm not getting up as early as I do during the school year, so I'm losing time from the get-go. Yes, I will claim most of the responsibility for my inability to negotiate this trial.
There are definitely some good things about summer vacation, like being able to sleep in, as noted above, and being able to go to family reunions at Bear Lake. I can only hope there will only be love for summer vacation in Garden City.
2 comments:
I hear ya! This summer has been especially busy for some reason- one thing right after the other I guess for us. As for Garden city I felt the love for vacation there- personally. Kind of wish I could be there now.
Me too!
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