And So Summer Begins…..

Well, we are not yet three hours into our first day of summer (Joseph’s last day of school was yesterday) and we have already had three time outs, two injuries (due to my son thrashing about on his bed like a rabid monkey – it is his idea of fun, for some reason) and me, at 9:30am, already giving serious thought to that bottle of wine sitting on the kitchen counter. Yikes.

Of course, I will save the wine till tonight to enjoy with my husband but what to do about the other calamities. I want, desperately, to initiate our summer together in a positive way – I want to be thankful for this time with both of my kids… But it is so out of our routine to all be home together all day long, I can’t quite work out how we change ten months of scheduling and timing. I suppose it will take some time (I figure, just enough time to get us to the beginning of the school year where we will, again, have to rearrange our schedule… whew…). I just have to remember to keep my cool, be patient. It’s not all bad, though. We did have a mean dance party to Ray Charles this morning.. I’ll take the good with the bad – because the good is oh’ so good when it comes.

Happy summertime!