This is the time of year that I start panicking because the Summer is almost over and I haven't done all the things with the girls that I intended too. This year it seems all the more final because J will be away at school next year.
It seems like the whole Summer passed by while I was waiting for things to get back to "normal."
We started the Summer with 2 one week day camps for the girls, which they enjoyed quite a bit. JP was well into his eternal call at that point, and so we were waiting for it to end so that we could plan our vacation and our lives could return to "normal."
His eternal call ended the day we left on vacation. We had a wonderful week at the beach with JP's sister and brother-in-law. This was a first for the girls and I, and we had a lovely time.
We had 3 days after returning from vacation to prepare for the one week visit with my brothers and family. We all had so much fun being together. When everyone headed home, I thought life would return to "normal."
Instead, we had several over night visitors, and 2 families of our closest friends moved away. I feel like I have been grieving and walking around in an altered sense of reality for the past several weeks. But now that they are gone, our lives will return to "normal", right?
I woke up yesterday morning, and realized that soccer practice started that day, we still haven't gone back-to-school shopping, we've only been to the pool ONCE this summer, and we have not done our yearly Idlewild trip...and there are only 2 weeks left until school starts.
So apparently, this is the NEW "normal"...chaos. Learn to love it, or leave.
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