Summer is Ready When You Are

Let's DO this!

It's been a long, long year, you guys.

I went back to school just under one year ago, and Brendan started Kindergarten just over nine months ago. Both of these events have presented me with a very very steep learning curve. Being the parent of a school kid is so hard! Dealing with the public school system? Navigating parent politics? Learning to handle post-full-day-kindergarten meltdowns? So hard! There should be classes that parents have to take, because I thought I was completely prepared. And.... no.

Not to mention my own return to the halls of academia (so gross, I really hate that term, sorry). I went back to school to get my library degree thinking it would be no big deal. I did great in school before, and I'm much smarter now! Right? And again.... no. You know Chevy Chase's character on Community? The old weird person that hasn't been in school for forever so they totally don't know what's going on? Yeah, that would be me. I'm the Chevy Chase. Or maybe I'm the Leonard. I'm definitely not the Magnitude, I can tell you that. (Lots of Community references here, and if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. Beyond just the benefit of getting my last couple of jokes.)

Plus, being in college with a six-year-old and a two-year-old waiting for you at home is just... exhausting. Like being the parent of Graham (the two-year-old) isn't ridiculous enough all by itself (it is), trying to put him to sleep for two hours while simultaneously attempting to put together an articulate and well-reasoned paper about the history of the Dewey Decimal System is just laughable.

Wheeee!

So when summer started to seem reasonably near, I started getting excited. I had decided, early on in the beginning of my summer term last year (literally the second day of classes if I'm not mistaken) to take this summer off. All my school volunteering and tee-ball coaching duties came to an end in one week, and Brendan was out of school the next. And now, it's here! Summer really came! I have so many activities and ideas and I just cannot wait. Backyard campouts, park outings, water balloons, zoo trips, ballgames... I just hope there's going to be enough summer for all of it.