Chores

I know as a child growing up there was always a chore to be done.  And I hated it!  I was always stuck washing dishes and it was my least favorite thing to do.  Even as an adult, it still is.  I started my own children young with washing dishes.  Now, they hate it too!  I think its their worst chore to do.  I have to practically trick them into doing it!  Or make it a game where they take turns.  It's ridiculously funny!  However, no one in my family feel that laundry is a chore.  It just gets done.  Hmm...I wonder what that says about them?  Perhaps they like to look good and wear clean clothes?  LOL!  My kids both do their own laundry.  I can't really remember when that started, but I just stopped and noticed one day that I didn't have to worry about their laundry.  They just took care of it!  Something even more ridiculously funny?  I enjoy doing laundry!  I really do!  Always have!  My most favorite is doing the towels.  They are so easy to fold and who doesn't love fresh clean towels?! My least favorite are the socks.  Everyone has the sock eating dryer right?  I can never find a pair!  So, why is it that my kids take care of their own laundry when I really wouldn't mind doing it?  Go figure?


In all honesty, when I am home for the summer, I never mind any of the chores to do at home.  I love having the time to be home and take care of my home.  It's like a breath of fresh air compared to the busy hectic days of the work year.  During the work year I am so busily working then coming home and making do with dinner, cleaning, laundry, etc... It's like being on survival mode all the time.  It starts probably about mid to end of September.  It slows down around the holidays (of course because I am home!) then it starts up again and doesn't slow down again until the summer.  So while most people loath the daily grind of chores, I enjoy when I have the time to do it.  During the work year, I wished I had more time...let me take that back...I really wished I had more energy!  There is always time, but the energy lacks.
I'm trying to make a promise to keep myself as organized as I can to keep up with what I can during the work year.  I know if I put enough heart into it I can.
 

Summer Date

I promised my nieces before school was out that I would take them on a summer date.  The day finally came.  They chose the Children's Museum.  One of my sisters is a stay at home mom and went for support.  Boy was I glad she did!  I know I couldn't have went with all five of them alone!  So off my sister and I went on our summer date with all the girls!  

We had a great time!  They played on and on non stop.  I got to enjoy the day with my beautiful nieces.  I watched them play and be so fascinated with all they discovered.  I pray for more times to enjoy moments like this with them.  Love you my baby girls!  

Summer and a Mulligan

Can I just be a summer blogger?  Is there such a thing?  ha! Seems I find little time to get to post anything during the school year. May was and usually is the fastest month for me.  The school year starts to wind down and it's almost like going 90 mph on a highway.

When I went into education I didn't get into it for the money nor the summers.  Okay, who am I kidding!  The summers are great!  But that wasn't one of the reasons I got into education.  Ever since I was a child, I played school at home.  I had my little chalkboard and my students.  I even had "school type" toys when I was little.  I totally loved reading too!  So, it was only natural that I would fall into education.  It was already in me from the beginning.  As I got close to high school graduation, the medical field sparked a big interest for me.  I started to have a desire to be a pediatrician.  Right after high school I took jobs in the medical field.  I worked as a nurse's assistant and in medical records.  I really enjoyed working in the hospitals.  Once my college courses begun, my heart started leaning back to my original dream of becoming a teacher and later work towards becoming a principal.


As a principal, no longer do you have the lengthy summer days.  Well, you still have summer days, but they are more for planning for your new year.  Just like a teacher prepares for her students for the next year, I prepare for my teachers and students.  It is a bit more calmer though.  Almost like some down time, but with a list of things to get done if that makes sense.

What I do love most about the education field (besides the obvious-working with children) is how it works in cycles.  There is a beginning and an end.  You go through the year sometimes trying new things.  Sometimes you have a strong focus on one thing and as the year progresses, something will take you off that focus and on to another.  But at the end of the year you get to look back and reflect.  What worked, what didn't work?  Summer time is the time to analyze and comb through all those reflections to find where the focus for the next year will be.  Most things in life run in cycles.  There is a beginning and an end.  We get started and we finish.  And we get to make a fresh start once again.  We take what we want, toss out what we don't and then we move on.  Life is funny that way.  It works along the same rules except your beginning can be wherever you want it to be.  If you wanted to set a new goal or a new focus, your beginning can be today.

This past school year was a tough one.  Maybe I can say it was the toughest one I've had in education?  I lived and learned quite a bit.  Good thing is I get to start all over again.  I get a mulligan.  Yeah that's it...a mulligan.  Love it!

Cheers to a wonderful summer of family fun!  Lots of down time for this lady here.  It's my goal!  Looking at doing some reading-for pleasure and for work (because that can't be put on hold...only keeping myself up with the latest), cooking-(l-o-v-e that!), blogging, and just enjoying being with my little family.  Oh and definitely making some time for the beach!

Welcome summer! I've been waiting for you! ;)