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.
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