Not sure why but I’ve lost track of which day of the week it is. I could have sworn today was Wednesday, but yesterday’s after school activities tells me otherwise. So Thursday it is then. So weird how the days just slip by, or bunch up, and become muddled together like that. Have been a fair bit busier this week, with meetings and such, so I’m not that surprised that I got a little turned around. Just feels odd when it happens. Vacations can do that to you.
My wife has three months left of her year off, and then two additional months of summer break before she returns to work. I can’t believe the time has rushed by so quickly. A year seems like it would feel longer. The summer months are a wash because she is always off anyway regardless of this year’s sabbatical. I just can’t believe that my youngest will turn seven, and my wife’s year will come to a close. Lots has happened. Deaths and deterioration of family member(s), funerals ; no less than three, multiple family trips to the US and a whole slew of theme park visits, volunteering, and additional evenings of children’s programming. I think she has managed to read as much as she had hoped to. She got roped into doing her dying uncle’s taxes, which ate up a bunch of time, but a good year to have that than on a year when she was also working full time too. We spent a great deal of time at the cottage, which I know she loves, so I think we’ve made it mostly worth while. Had lots of time to reconnect while the kids are at school. Had lunch together a fair number of days. Had some small number of outings, just the two of us during the day. Lovely.
This coming September is going to be very quiet. I’ll feel very lonely once the new school year boots up once again. But that’s months away. Best to look at the here and now. First day of spring has come and gone. Now, of course we’ll have three or four days of snow and a deep freeze to stunt, or kill all of the lovely flowers and tree buds that got ahead of themselves due to the early warming streak.
I think I will tackle a massive clear out of the house in early September. We had hoped to do it this year, but it’s a big thankless job. So I’ll take it on myself like I did when my youngest finally started junior kindergarten years ago, and I had the time to myself to do so. The slow accretion of McDonald’s junk toys, and random craft piles is what gets me. Piles of drawings, the good and the rushed need to be sorted and recycled. Walls washed. Rooms declutter once more. As quickly as I can get things out of here, more stuff turns up. I think we can probably clear away the art station as both kids use the dining room table and not the station itself. It’s just a horizontal surface to hold additional junk. A la fig 1.
The kids still use all of the doll houses and doll related periphanalia so I’ll live with that for another several years. I’m good with that. No need for my mighty mites to grow up too fast. I like them as small kids. I just want cleaner toy storage, and a less messy house. Dream big my friends. Dream big I say!
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