I am fall crazy and am not even a little sad that the summer is coming to an end. It was a great summer. It was a short summer, every year feels shorter. But we went places and saw people and ate foods and swam in oceans and even if we didn't cross every little thing off our list (it looks like we don't have a single weekend left to take HR to Story Land this year), we lived it. Now the next thing.
Vacationing with Mike's family at the end of the season is such a proper book end. We get to spend quality time with that side of the family, explore different beaches, totally relax. This year was no different. I'm grateful for the time HR gets to spend with his cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents.
It's great for all of us, and when it wraps up, it serves as a harbinger, for me, of summer's end. It will be hot as blazes for at least another month, and we have to first scale the dreaded peak of Evil September, but it's OK. Because change is coming and change is good.
In a little more than a week HR begins every day, full-day Pre-K. It will be a huge transition for the whole family, and nobody's ready for it. But also, we're all ready for it. It's going to be a completely unknown thing upon which we embark for the first few weeks, I'm holding no expectations. But once we get going, it'll be great. I know it. We are thrilled with the school, and it'll be so good for our boy. It'll be good for Mike to have some Mike time. It'll affect me... in some way I'm sure. It's not without emotional heft, no doubt there will be tears all around, but this is life, baby. Bring on life.
I've got one last hurrah left in the summer of 2014, and I'm gonna hurrah it good this weekend. And onward and upward.
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