Lazy Summer Days

Ahhhhh summer! Juicy watermelon, hot sunny days, jumping into cool water and relaxing with a good book. OR NOT! We interrupt this Disney commercial to bring you back to a little place called RealityLand. In this place there are no slow days interrupted only for lemonade and naps. No quiet evenings of crickets chirping and stars blazing. Oh no. here in RealityLand it's a slightly different scene:

Get up at 6 to shower and feed kids. Rush 20 miles to get eldest daughter to babysitting class as base. Find out class was rescheduled for next month. Run to mall to exchange summer clothes that don't fit younger daughter. Race home to get in a few hours of lessons. Rush one to swim class and one to tumbling class. Pick up and switch outfits. Dress in car and pass out picnic dinner. Go to Library for family night. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Don't worry, every day isn't this crazy, I think there is one day still open. No wait, I lied. This is actually one of the "quiet" ones. I have no idea why I do this to myself. All I can say is that like pet rocks and New Coke, it seemed like a good idea at the time. Summer camps, church groups, VBS, field trips, endless classes and lessons, when did summer become the school year on crack? Why don't we lay around the front porch and sip lemonade? I mean we don't have a porch or like lemonade, but you get the point, right? Why is summer such a rush these days?

Hmmm, I may go make myself a vodka-lemonade and think about this some more...one night of missed classes won't kill them. (I really don't like lemonade, but that's why I have to add the vodka silly! It kills the taste!)