I am looking forward to my first unfettered summer in a long time....maybe ever. I am a recovering volunteer-a-holic and I tend to fill my precious 10 weeks of summer vacation with a variety of community service projects. But the last two years have really been challenging and I have decided to dedicate this summer to my self and to my home.
As soon as my youngest child left home to go to college, I began a very rigorous master's degree program in educational leadership. In the middle of the pursuit of the degree, my oldest child and only daughter got married. I feel like I have not stopped running since my daughter was born 22 years ago. I'm not complaining. I am fully aware that I am crammed my life full of activities and events and projects for the last two decades. I will probably continue to do so, but this summer, the only events I have on the calendar are three vacations.
HOWEVER, if you are a compulsively busy person (or maybe know one), you know that I'm not just going to sit around this summer and do nothing. I can't.
So....I gave myself 4 days to kind of lay around and recover from the 151 8th graders I had been penned up with for 9 months and to get my game plan together.
I know this sounds sick to those of you who are normal, but I actually typed up a work plan for myself for the summer. It includes a list of daily morning activities from laundry to meditation to flower bed maintenance. It includes a plan for deep cleaning my house from top to bottom and a plan for completely purging and redecorating the upstairs - you know, when your children have moved out, but their junk forgot to go with them!! - I am actually very excited about accomplishing this task and staying on this work schedule - like I said, I know you normal people will not get that!!
My only other goal for the summer (besides totally cleaned up house and reclaimed upstairs living space) is to learn to kayak and maybe stand up paddle. I am looking forward to writing about my summer experiences.
