Last Week Of Summer

This is the last Friday of my summer vacation. I have to report to work next week. For those of you new to the blog, I work at Faith’s elementary school as the security monitor. It’s great because I get a teacher’s schedule without having to be a teacher. Boy those people have hard jobs.
I learned several years ago that making a list of “Summer Goals” is an exercise in frustration. I never get them all done and am left feeling rushed and despairing at summer’s end. Now I just aim to relax and hope the kids sleep in and try to complete a house project or two that can’t be done in the winter. I guess this was a good summer because all three of those things got done.
Next week we need to start getting the kids into and out of bed earlier so that the first week is not so brutal. Also, there’s the back-to-school shopping though I try not to buy too many clothes or shoes until it gets cold because they’re sure to grow again if I do and then I have to re-buy it all. It would also be nice to do some baking for the freezer so that I have goodies to put in the kids’ lunches. And I really need to get my flower garden weeded. It looks like a grass garden right now.