Hooray!!
My last student day was Wednesday (lots of crying; I've had these babies since third grade) and we finished up our two teacher work days yesterday.
Unfortunately Eleanor is not done until next Thursday, so my real vacation starts then and I get to be a stay-at-home-mom until mid-August.
We have lots of adventures planned, mostly revolving around home.
Grandpa's celebration of life will be in June and I am not at all ready for this. I have so many memories that I hardly know where to start. I've been writing and rewriting and rewriting what I'm going to say and I still don't have the words to properly explain how fiercely he loved me and how I will never get over losing my first and best best friend.
We will be home with family for a good chunk of summer and have two concerts in that time - Louis Tomlinson in Minneapolis and then a week later in Chicago. One of my favorite Louis songs is called Chicago. So, yes, we got tickets to the Chicago show to hear him sing Chicago in Chicago, because of course he will even though it isn't on the tour set list.
Then in July, I will officially have a teenager. Eleanor will be thirteen and my brain cannot comprehend this. Like, what do you mean that the tiny human Mom and I brought home from the hospital is this whole person now (minus a fully developed prefrontal cortex)??? I am so proud of this child of mine and even though the road leading to her was bumpy, I would not change a single thing. I would do it all over again just so we could find each other, and I hope we have found each other in every lifetime, in every universe.
I originally created my Spring Reading/Blogging Challenge because I had taken that massive hiatus after Grandpa passed and I was in no frame of mind to do anything remotely functional. I am debating between revamping it to include summer goals and make it one big challenge, or leaving them as two different entities. I'll make that decision next week though, because all I am doing the next couple days while Eleanor has to be at her father's is reading and relaxing.
What summer plans do you have?
Happy Reading!
Sarah
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