The Busy Season
I was so eager for spring to arrive, but forgot what always happens this time of year.
It's the busy season!
Soccer practices and games suddenly erupted on my calendar.
Invites to homeschool field trips are flooding my email inbox.
State testing takes place over the next few weeks.
School lessons have taken on a new urgency as the kids realize that summer vacation is less than two months away. We're doubling up on math and science to finish on time.
The yard desperately needs attention after a long and punishing winter.
On top of all that, the warm weather brought out a kind of project madness in me, and I started painting the kitchen, building shelves in my daughter's room, planning redwood boxes in the garden, and getting estimates for a cement patio.
It's a paradox.
On the one hand, all this activity makes me feel very much alive.
But on the other, by the end of the busy season I'll be feeling half-dead and in need of revival.
I guess that's what summer's for.
It's the busy season!
Soccer practices and games suddenly erupted on my calendar.
Invites to homeschool field trips are flooding my email inbox.
State testing takes place over the next few weeks.
School lessons have taken on a new urgency as the kids realize that summer vacation is less than two months away. We're doubling up on math and science to finish on time.
The yard desperately needs attention after a long and punishing winter.
On top of all that, the warm weather brought out a kind of project madness in me, and I started painting the kitchen, building shelves in my daughter's room, planning redwood boxes in the garden, and getting estimates for a cement patio.
It's a paradox.
On the one hand, all this activity makes me feel very much alive.
But on the other, by the end of the busy season I'll be feeling half-dead and in need of revival.
I guess that's what summer's for.
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6 Comments:
I've just ventured out into our garden after our 12 day trip away and I nearly had a heart attack. Damn spring, making all the weeds grow!
Phil - With all that busy stuff, don't forget to make your Mixmasters CD.... ;-)
Steve
www.stevenology.com
I expect things to slow down in about 25 years.
It's hard enough with one little guy. I don't know how you do it.
I know a guy down the street with seven kids. And I feel busy with just the two. I'm a wimp.
When I feel exhausted in the Spring, I read my favorite farmer's blogs, then I feel for them!
Still two kids and a home and a life can be murder on one huh?
Sorry, for so many comments at once, playing blog catchup.
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