I thought that I'd have more time to sit by the computer and post about our summer, but life comes in between. After long pool and beach days, it's time to get everyone in the shower, dinners to be cooked and served, dishes to be made, sandy beach towels and swim clothes to be washed and put into the dryer for the next day, emptying out coolers and bags of snacks and empty water bottles.
If you have kids you also know that it's not so much relaxing at the beach or poolside, but more running around playing, throwing kids in the air in the water, building sandcastles and serving snacks, spraying sunscreen and making sure that everyone gets along.
Not so much relaxing with other words. So when all this is taken care of late at night, and kids are in bed, I'm pretty much done and tired myself, and don't get to the computer as much as I would want to.
But still, I love these days, and I only wish that we would have had more of them together as a family. Often it's just me and the kids, or me and the little ones, as Chris is mostly working and if Cassandra is not working babysitting, she is hanging out with her boyfriend, friends or enjoying activities and field trips through the Teen Center.
I'm not ready for the end of this month. August....It's really like the quote says below, August is like the Sunday of Summer. You can hardly enjoy it as you know it's soon time to go back to reality and school.
I'm not one of the moms that can't wait for summer to be over, so that they can have their days off again when the kids are back in school. I enjoy my kids, (most of the time..lol) and love spending my days with them. I miss them when they are in school and I love the fact that we can bum around at home, take the days as they come, do nothing at all, read books, play games, go to the pool or beach or playground or what ever it might be as often and when ever we want to.
Soon their days with be filled with stress again. Rushing out of the house at an ungodly hour for Cassandra to catch the bus for school. The stress for her this year is a bit bigger as she is starting High School. New School, new friends, new teachers,new subjects, new everything...Her boyfriend and most of her friends with not be at the same school, which is an additional stress for her, and I hope that she will soon find more new friends to feel good about going to this new school. I know she will do great, but it's a stress for sure.
There won't be much free time to enjoy with her, homework, projects, tests etc will take up most of her time again.. And the little free time that she'll have, we as a family have to compete for with boyfriend and friends..
The little ones, that aren't that little anymore. Benjamin and Isabella are going to be first graders! Wow, not Kindergarten anymore, but 1. Grade! Big step, and also their afternoons and weekends will be filled with homework and other activities.
It'll be good to be back into routines for sure, but still, I'm not ready yet! I'm glad that the school year here on base doesn't start until August 29th so we still have some time to spend together!!
No, no no!!
