Sometime amidst the dizzying chaos of the week before school started, we managed to have one last grand adventure. Each of the kids invited a friend and we headed out to the Alpine Splash pad for a picnic and fun.
It was a hot day and I'm pretty confident I succeeded in giving them all heat stroke, but we had a great time squeezing the last days out of summer.
At this juncture, I never know how I feel. Some mothers are literally couting down the days until school starts on facebook. I heard of others getting a little teary-eyed as they send their kids out the door on the first day of school.
I guess I'm somewhere in the middle. The long, lazy (or not so much) days of summer are inviting and liberating. But the structure and productivity of the school year are welcome for everybody, including my kids, who seem to be plagued by boredom toward the end. So, off to school we go!
Sometime amidst the dizzying chaos of the week before school started, we managed to have one last grand adventure. Each of the kids invited a friend and we headed out to the Alpine Splash pad for a picnic and fun.
It was a hot day and I'm pretty confident I succeeded in giving them all heat stroke, but we had a great time squeezing the last days out of summer.
At this juncture, I never know how I feel. Some mothers are literally couting down the days until school starts on facebook. I heard of others getting a little teary-eyed as they send their kids out the door on the first day of school.
I guess I'm somewhere in the middle. The long, lazy (or not so much) days of summer are inviting and liberating. But the structure and productivity of the school year are welcome for everybody, including my kids, who seem to be plagued by boredom toward the end. So, off to school we go!