True confessions? I am sooo done with summer vacation.
Bookworm on Aug 16 2012 at 6:24 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
The kids go back to school soon, thank goodness. Summer isn’t exhausting the way it used to be when I had toddlers or elementary-school aged children. Nevertheless, having the children around all the time — not to mention a rotating crop of three to ten friends — means that the house is always filled with energy. Energy is great. I wish I had more of it myself. But sometimes having all that youthful energy around, even though they’re so self-sufficient that they’re not usually aiming it in my direction, nonetheless leaves me tired. I miss quiet. I miss calm. I miss the selfish pleasure of having the house to myself, not for minutes here and there, but for hours at a time.
So school can’t start soon enough for me. I am done with summer vacation. (A few overcast, or even rainy, days would be nice too. Just saying.)
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We, on the other hand, just had our first 80 degree day – today! Summer! We’re very ready for it to start! (Ahhh…. the hell with it. Maui in October.)
Our domestic situations are simpatico, or at least it seems so to me. However, since my two oldest are now in college (youngest still in middle school), I can look back and say that “the days are long but the years are short.”
As a parent whose kids are “grown and gone”, one in Oregon and the other serving in Afghanistan, I can tell you for certain you will miss these times. I still wake up some mornings now 15 years later listening for the sounds of them in the house.