What a day to end week two of the summer holidays. Hot and sunny by 9:00am. If these past two weeks are any indication, we aren’t even going to know the days date, or which way is up or down by the time summer is halfway through. These kids are – a lot. My wife remarked that at least when she taught summer school she actively knew what day of the week it was. But now we’re all adrift in the new possibilities and utter sameness of every day. The biggest demarcation of the days is going to be the weather. Windy? Cloudy? Raining? Or a vast string of hot sunny days that run together into one massive lump.
I am fairly certain that next year both kids will do several weeks of camp in July at least. They need the structure and the chance to see other kids their age. I get that Covid is here, and it sucks. So we have stayed isolated a fair deal. But when we do happen across friends of theirs they are so happy. Summer is a difficult season to navigate as we all have such different schedules and preferences for off time. Can be a real challenge to nail down a day to visit and keep all parties invested in keeping that date. Or maybe that’s just me?
Our kids are like chalk and cheese. One second they can’t bear to be apart, and the next instant are kick boxing and scratching at each others eyes, then back again, on a constant loop all day long. Tired, hungry, happy it doesn’t seem to make a difference. We work them in the sun at the farm, swim them, ride bikes & scooters, lounge with movies and bake and attempt to clean. But still, split second shifts between besties and enemies. We don’t seem to be able to find that fine line between just exercised enough to be docile, and over tired tyrant that needs to pee ten times instead of going to bed and falling asleep at a reasonable hour.
I was going to go into a bit about boiling, roiling guts that wake you up at 3:40am in a panic, but that picture paints itself fairly vividly without much prompting. So consider yourselves lucky.
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