Oh my! Say it isn’t so! Summer is headed straight for us like a flaming asteroid. You can watch it coming, but you can’t do a dang thing about it. It seems like the school year just started, and now the end is lurking just around the corner, only 26 days away. (And two of them are half-days might I add which Sam says make it really 25 days left. Touche.) It also seems like yesterday that I was one of the students excitedly counting down the days, not one of the parents wishing there were lots more to go.
I’m not sure why it is such a shocker for parents that school will be letting out. It happens every year at about this time. The school year must end at some point….
On the topic of “spring,” one good thing about the rapidly approaching summer is that at least the pressure to do some bang-up spring cleaning is over. It is no longer spring — it is now pre-summer. (How’s that for rationalization?) It either happened or it didn’t happen, but the path has been taken. It’s like picking or not picking a New Year’s resolution. Once the new year is chugging long, the deadline has passed and is forgotten. (And the people who made resolutions usually elect to forget theirs after not too long anyway.) New timely deadlines appears on the screen — like plans for Presidents Day Weekend, Valentine’s Day, spring break, the rest of your life, etc.
But if you do happen get a freakish hankering to do anything that could be construed as spring cleaning, just think it this way! You are getting a jump start on next year! That puts a whole other spin on it. Instead of being a slacker trying to catch up, it’s downright impressive — doing some of next year’s spring cleaning almost a year ahead. Way to go!
Come to think about it, maybe it’s just better to sit back and savor those remaining precious days. You’ve got all summer to train your kids how to do chores for you.
LibbY