First soccer game of the season. All-school picnic. Loads of papers and reports coming home for the "archives." Fourth, fifth and sixth grade concert. Yup, we've been right in the midst of the end-of-school flurry.
Two more school days left: we have a morning surprise in store tomorrow, and a last-day field trip on Tuesday.
This will be our first summer with only a partial schedule. Ironically, on the days that Big T has planned activities, he will actually have to be up and out earlier than during the school year. That's because our school had changed its hours this year, so his bus didn't pick up until 8:45. Most weeks this summer, he'll be catching a 7:30 bus to the community center for a variety of week-long activities, including fencing lessons one week; video game design another. Then the bus will bring him back around 12:30 for lunch and laziness. He's got a week of sleep-away camp and a couple of weeks of YMCA day camp. And afternoons at home.
I'm hoping he'll get a sampling of the kind of summer my friends and I whiled away doing nothing much. Make a fort or two; play some pickup baseball; ride his bike.
The difference will be that my own schedule doesn't relax for the school break. I'll be mostly working from home, but already next week we have one day when Husband will have an enforced work-from-home schedule while I travel to Iowa for meetings.
We have stocked up on summer lunch fixings. But we can't predict when the boredom blues will strike, and I'm thinking the school chum telephone directory may be the only preparation we have for those endless summer afternoons when "I'm bored" may complete with "well, I'm working."
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