You still have four right-handed mitten shoved in the back of your closet under the boots your kid outgrew shortly after getting them for Christmas.- How quickly your butt goes numb when you sit on the school bleachers watching your kid’s basketball game.
- That the score of that game would likely be 6-4, and it’s the third quarter.
- Also, your kid hasn’t touched the ball since first quarter.
- You stopped understanding math homework when your kid got to fifth grade.
- If this were autumn, you’d have a soccer game, a piano lesson and Back-to-School night all scheduled at the same time tonight.
- And yet, you’d spend the evening at Staples, trying to find enough white modeling clay for the Jefferson Memorial diorama that’s due tomorrow.
- Delayed school openings when you have a meeting or appointmet at 10 a.m.
- Early dismissals when you’re an hour away. (And that’s when there’s no “wintry mix” between you and the sudden school pick-up.)
- You have to get all those socks to match up every stinkin’ day, because “Just wear your sandals” doesn’t work so well in November where you live.
Tell us what you remind yourself when you hear “I’m bored” and “She started it!” around this time of the summer.
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I’m always surprised by how stressed I am by the school schedule…when supposedly there’s more “grownup time” when kids are in school. I generally feel more productive during the summer.
I completely agree with number 5. Good news is a neighbor across the street is a math wiz. And I do think about — stepping outside in cold and rain. Everynow and then I just take a deep breath of summer.