The weird thing about summer is how every week is different. Last week the 11yo had camp, which was weirdly in the middle of SF State’s campus and had hard start and end times. The 15yo was home after her two nights away with friends at the lake, and she didn’t leave the house for three days.
This week both are in camps and the combined driving time is monstrous. The 15yo can take the bus, but I haven’t made her do that yet. Probably tomorrow because spending a full hour driving around the city twice a day is making me crazy.
Also this week the in-laws are here (my SIL and her two kids). We stopped by to say hi after camps yesterday, right when they’d gotten in. The cousins are in camps during the day too so we only have the afternoons to see them. I’m not sure how hard we should be attempting to visit as we both fly out Saturday, it might only happen Thursday evening, which is fine.
My sister is in town when we get back from August. And then school starts.
It feel like summer is already over, and we’re on borrowed time. Which isn’t true! We have plenty of weeks left, but I know school will be here in an instant.
We leave for Hawaii on Saturday. There is stuff I need to do, like pick up my ADHD meds, and get my blood work done. I have to return one or two pairs of shoes I got for the 11yo’s start of middle school. I want to finish my library book so I can return it before we leave. I should email the pediatrician with the 11yo’s athletic release because evidently baseball starts the very first week of school. I need to clean the shower, which requires washing the shower liner, which requires at least a day of soaking it, which means it has to be done today or tomorrow. Yesterday I did a big clean on the cat boxes, so I could put the used litter into the trash bin right before pick up. Just little things, but they take time.
I’m trying to be at the dojo a couple times this week because I’m going to miss two Saturdays. My friends and I are getting together Friday night for my birthday (it was the only night we were all free). I want to clean the house a bit. I’m doing more of my husband’s chores since he doesn’t get time off like I do, and is kind of miserable working while we all have a summer break.
I still haven’t worked on the Memphis post. Maybe it won’t go up? And that is fine because no one cares if I post it but me. I could also just add in all the photos I already added to the WP media library with captions and call it. Again, not a real issue, but something that nags at me. Whenever I sit down to work on it, I end writing a different post, like this one.
None of this is bad, it just is, and I’m trying to express it as such. I’m not annoyed by anything, it’s just swirling around in my head.
The weather has been HORRIBLE. Every day is fog so heavy it’s misting. Sometimes the mist is light, but other times, like this morning, it was more like a light rain. The 11yo is in outdoor camp all week on a lake that looks so creepy with the fog pushing in from all sides. It’s weird weather. I’ve heard it’s the coldest summer on record in the Bay Area; my parents have reported it rarely hitting 70 even down where they live, which usually gets much less fog because of the Santa Cruz mountains. After our two weeks in the hot humidity of St. Louis and Memphis, and my bad sun rash, I haven’t been minding this weather as much, but I know it’s making my friends who’ve been in the city all summer really batty.
I wrote some more, but moved it over to another post. I really want to work on the summer fun book – I’m downstairs connected to the big monitor and everything! – so I’m going to put up this smorgasbord of what’s been going on in my head for people to read, if they want to. Sorry it was such a cluttered mess!
[UPDATE – I got 10 pages of the summer fun book done and the first full day of the Memphis post finished. Woor!]
I care about Memphis too and the farm. BUT TOTALLY AM NOT PRESSURING YOU TO POST!!!! You get so much done in so little time you need you time more than I need photos and stories. So while I m excited for more I REALLY am not pushing for that.
It has been cold and damp here and while I am SO grateful to not be where there are floods and not be in extra humid places (told a friend in ATO area that there literally is more moisture in the air due to well let’s not use the science based stuff) it is wearing on me. Cold, chilly, damp wear another sweater or sweatshirt or both because PG&E is too expensive to turn on heat. Makes me think of stories from Russia in the 1950’s when we though it would never be like that here.
That is a LOT of time driving around the city doing pickup and drop off and how lovely of you to pick up extra chores as your spouse doesn’t have a summer break as long as yours is. Hawaii however should be lovely for all of you.
Will be thinking of you in warmth and nice water and beaches and hopefully wonderful family times and easy flights.
Wishing you much joy and happiness! AND GAZILLION THANK YOUS for writing.
Yes, I hear you. My summer is not nearly as complicated as yours, but still, it feels like every week is different. I had all sorts of grand plans for the summer 9more strength training, more speed work) but i just haven’t been able to get in a consistent routine, and now I REALLY feel like summer is almost over. Schools start here August 11 (nooooooo!) I’m thinking I should just stop making such grand plans for summer.
I’ll be happy to see a Memphis post! I wouldn’t want to pressure you, but since you got the first day written I figure you’re doing it.
Your weather sounds CRAPPY- as much as I long for cooler temps right now, I wouldn’t like all that gloom. But- you’re going to Hawaii. You’ll get plenty of sunshine there.
Travel definitely complicated a things, and being sick for two weeks! That will throw a wrench in any plans. I do think it’s easy to over extend ourselves on summer goals. And looking back, the years I have had the most unmet summer goals were the years I needed the most time to just recharge. Of course, I probably needed that recharge time because I over extended during the school year, which left a lot of projects undone around the house.
I’m sorry you’re not tackling the strength or speed work you hoped to accomplish. Having said that, I think sticking to your diet is an incredible feat, one that should be celebrated, especially during the summer. It sounds really restrictive and yet you’ve managed it with a ton of grace.
Finally, your summer is only partly a “break,” where as mine is much more totally a stopping of my regular obligation. It makes all the stuff I get done way more possible.
Let me say, it’s been a glorious summer here in Sacramento… we’ve barely scratched the mid-80s this week (which is why your temps are so low, I am guessing). I am enjoying it 🙂
Have a great trip to Hawaii. The weather should be nicer there!
Have a great trip! I’m on a major trip myself at the moment- seeing France in depth, with the kids, for 33 days, including travel. The temps have been glorious – 20s, 23 C the most – which in F is like 70s… I love it.
I wolder if I will have to do a summer book just for France, because… tons of pictures. Then include a few in my 2025 family book that includes everything…