Shortly before our camping trip, I realized school was right around the corner. This set me into a mild panic. We've been very busy this summer, which is pretty unusual for us. I'm a big, big believer in summer being restful. We don't do lessons. We don't do a lot of activities. We don't do anything. I expect a lot from my kids during the school year, so summer is our chance to just chill. This is their chance to fill their time with imaginative play. I loved summers as a kid, and my kids do too.
Well, we had two big vacations this year, but that wasn't really what made it so busy. More than anything, we had a hundred little things coming along here and there which basically made for one busy week right after another. It's mostly been fun stuff, but when I realized how soon school was going to start, I knew I didn't feel rested. I definitely wasn't ready for school to begin. At all.
So I looked at the calendar and saw that our last scheduled activity was our San Diego trip with Kimmy and Daniel (which, grrr, we had to cancel thanks to our ginormous A/C repair bill - I still feel like throwing a pouting fit over that one every time I think about it). That left two free weeks before school started.
So I made an executive decision. Those weeks would be sacred. Holy. Absolutely, positively NO activities would be scheduled during those weeks. We'd sleep in, hang out, chill, and do whatever we felt like doing at the moment we felt like doing it. I wrote it on the calendar and everything.
It didn't take long for various things/people/activities to want to invade Holy Week. (Yes, I know it's two weeks, but "Holy Weeks" just sounds weird.) Some of these things were important, or things I wanted to do. But I had to remind myself, these weeks will be over soon enough, and we really need the break. Everything else is just going to have to wait.
So I've been keeping my calendar clear. Today's the first day. It's sooooo nice to know I have two weeks in front of me with nothing to do. I'm really hoping it's enough, because ready or not, school starts August 11. I'm hoping we'll be there with bells on.
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I will meditate in your honor.
"Ommm!"
Can't we take it a bit further and somehow come up with a Holy Month?
My dad said something funny about his priorities (he's retired, mind you): "These are my priorities: I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. Everything else isn't a priority."
Anyway . . . we all need Holy Week(s). I need multiple Holy Days throughout a given week. I need the time to unwind and just recuperate!
I promise not to ask you to do anything!!! :) We could all take a page out of the "Holy Week" book! Enjoy!!!
I love the idea of a "Holy Week." I think I've had a holy minute before (?) I'm gonna have to try really, really, really hard and maybe I can do a holy day.
That is a great idea to help rejuvenate yourself and your kids and get them ready to work hard for the school year.
You totally crack me up. My holy weeks end up being when I'm sick. So far, that's the only thing that I allow to clear my week. And that's probably why I'll die when I'm 50 of a heart attack. :)
I'm a little freaked out as well about school being right around the corner.
Lately I've been feeling lazy for not doing anything, but then I tell myself it's okay since we'll be plenty busy once school starts. Now that you posted that I feel like I have extra permission to be lazy for a couple more weeks. I'll lable it holy rather than procrastinaty/lazy.
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