Well, summer is here again. And just like every other summer for the last few years, I am telling myself that we are going to stay structured and organized. We are going to get some things accomplished and have some fun. I am going to be able to pay attention to the house, kids, and everything else in our lives. Because truly that was the mom I had planned to be. The Mom, which was in control, but still had fun. I planned to do arts and crafts and day trips to zoos and museums. My children would be well-behaved and obedient, and therefore we could easily do lots of fun things. But somehow summer comes, and we go crashing wildly out of control, and I’m left just holding on for dear life, until the school year rescues us from our chaos. It has happened so often that I approach summer with a quiet sense of dread. I still plan and hope that somehow this summer will be different. I even know what I’m doing wrong – we pack too many activities into June, and by the time it is over, we are so out of control there seems to be no way to get back into sync. Of course, I do this because Josh needs to have every moment planned; he does poorly with unstructured time on his hands. Hailey wants to do everything, and since Josh is, it is hard to say no. That leaves Ashley and me struggling to hold on for the ride. Unfortunately, Ashley has very little going on in the summer, and I’m too busy shuffling the other 2 around, so she is really just bored out of her mind. Her summer school is a little more evenly spaced out this year, so that should help. The kids are older, so that should help too. Although I hope and I plan, I’m not holding my breath. I’m beginning to think I just have the wrong type of kids to be the Mom I wanted to be, or maybe it is just me. I guess time will tell if I still post at least 1 blog weekly, you will know we are surviving.
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originally posted May 2012
Well, summer is here again. And just like every other summer for the last few years, I am telling myself that we are going to stay structured and organized. We are going to get some things accomplished and have some fun. I am going to be able to pay attention to the house, kids, and everything else in our lives. Because truly that was the mom I had planned to be. The Mom, which was in control, but still had fun. I planned to do arts and crafts and day trips to zoos and museums. My children would be well-behaved and obedient, and therefore we could easily do lots of fun things. But somehow summer comes, and we go crashing wildly out of control, and I’m left just holding on for dear life, until the school year rescues us from our chaos. It has happened so often that I approach summer with a quiet sense of dread. I still plan and hope that somehow this summer will be different. I even know what I’m doing wrong – we pack too many activities into June, and by the time it is over, we are so out of control there seems to be no way to get back into sync. Of course, I do this because Josh needs to have every moment planned; he does poorly with unstructured time on his hands. Hailey wants to do everything, and since Josh is, it is hard to say no. That leaves Ashley and me struggling to hold on for the ride. Unfortunately, Ashley has very little going on in the summer, and I’m too busy shuffling the other 2 around, so she is really just bored out of her mind. Her summer school is a little more evenly spaced out this year, so that should help. The kids are older, so that should help too. Although I hope and I plan, I’m not holding my breath. I’m beginning to think I just have the wrong type of kids to be the Mom I wanted to be, or maybe it is just me. I guess time will tell if I still post at least 1 blog weekly, you will know we are surviving. Like Created In His Image on Facebook
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