Ah, that fateful day came today for my kids. This half-day was filled with report cards and art projects and workbooks and teacher gifts and thank-yous and farewells and see-you-in-Septembers. Nothing but a long summer stretching out ahead of us like an endless highway on the prairies. No really, I'm looking forward to it.
Do you remember the end of school from your childhood? You had the whole summer ahead of you: camping trips, time at the cottage, family holidays, playing on the street, visiting friends, ice creams and staying up late. Of course, somewhere in mid-July the boredom would set in. "Mom, there's nothing to do." Of course Mom was full of suggestions about helping weed the garden, fold laundry or cleaning up your room.
Doesn't it make you nostalgic for your childhood and that time when you had no worries or concerns except for what you would be doing that day or the next? In these days that are filled with work pressures, kids' needs and over-scheduled calendars, don't you wish you could recapture that carefree, simple time again?
Maybe that's my goal for this summer: to live like a kid and enjoy each day to the fullest.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Sunday, June 13, 2010
The Bloggy-moon's Over
OK... I'm feeling the blogger's guilt. My last post was almost a month ago, and whatever happened to my goal of posting once a week? Life gets busy I guess, and other things take priority. It's not that I haven't had any good ideas about what to write -- I could tell you about the awesome new windows that were installed in our house a few weeks ago, or my business trip to Fredericton, New Brunswick -- but somehow, I just haven't found the time... No time like the present, right?
For the windows, I want to do 'before' and 'after' photos, so I'll start with my trip to the East Coast. I went to Fredericton for 4 days for the Canadian Association of University Continuing Education annual conference. A colleague and I were giving a presentation on Email Marketing on the last day of the conference, so the conference experience was not quite as leisurely as I had hoped. Instead, we spent most of our "free time" preparing our presentation and overcoming our public speaking jitters. All-in-all, it went as good as could be expected, considering that the competition (the concurrent presentation in the room next door) was giving our free wine and cheese.
The town of Fredericton is quite cute, but a lot smaller than I had envisioned. When I got off the plane, my big-city eyes couldn't believe the small airport with its single baggage carousel and the one other propeller plane on the tarmac.
Like all trips, it was nice to get away, but even nicer to come back home to my family (and the awesome new windows that were installed on the house in my absence -- more about that later!)
For the windows, I want to do 'before' and 'after' photos, so I'll start with my trip to the East Coast. I went to Fredericton for 4 days for the Canadian Association of University Continuing Education annual conference. A colleague and I were giving a presentation on Email Marketing on the last day of the conference, so the conference experience was not quite as leisurely as I had hoped. Instead, we spent most of our "free time" preparing our presentation and overcoming our public speaking jitters. All-in-all, it went as good as could be expected, considering that the competition (the concurrent presentation in the room next door) was giving our free wine and cheese.
The town of Fredericton is quite cute, but a lot smaller than I had envisioned. When I got off the plane, my big-city eyes couldn't believe the small airport with its single baggage carousel and the one other propeller plane on the tarmac.
Like all trips, it was nice to get away, but even nicer to come back home to my family (and the awesome new windows that were installed on the house in my absence -- more about that later!)