1. I am embarrassed to be writing "week six." I've been on vacation for six weeks? The only thing that has gotten great use of this time is
Game of Thrones and my pajamas. I have been four-days-a-week diligent about the gym and pool {gym, tan, laundry - on the reals}...but less so in other things in my life. I'm working on changing that this week/weekend with a list longer than my arm. I've been working on some blog housekeeping {making sure links work, posting, some new stuff on the page, likey?} and now some real life housekeeping {scrubbing and painting baseboards, organizing and good god the dust}. Just like every summer for the past eight years, we are on the two week downslide to the first day of school and I feel like the months have just melted away.
2. Even though Mellow and I spend a lot of time together, we don't really
spend a lot of time together. I've been conscientious about working on this. Lego time. Letter time. Cars time. Movie time. I keep trying to remember that as much as I want
me time and QUIET time, these thing will be aplenty later - like when he no longer wants me to play Legos with him and would rather be locked in his room with greasy hair and headphones listening to the Pixies. So I limit my number of
in a little bit, son and just put down the book to play. We "invented" a special game this, matching upper and lowercase letters. He also took turns driving his cars on the cards and calling out the letters. If you mistakenly thought your life was awesome, this is what I get to do.
3. Mellow is on phone duty. I've been ridiculously and unacceptably awful about answering my phone. I usually have it with me all the time but lately it seems to be on silent or out of reach or the wrong number. Mellow has ears like a bat and is able to hear my phone ringing from a block away. If he can recite his phone number correctly, he is allowed to answer it {try explaining this to your boss when you return his call because we "couldn't answer it fast enough"}. It is worth it - I hope from both ends - to hear his "hel-wo." He's like my secretary and my student.
4. My craft time this week has been to help out these two wonderful women with blog makeovers.
Merely Peeking Under the Mattress is an fantastically real. With two step babies, husband, and baby-on-the-way I have no idea how she keeps it all together. I had fun with all of the clean and crisp blue chevron!
Merrily Mary is just hilarious - and maybe that's because she now has four kids under the age of five and can still blog coherently. I've enjoyed her posts and I hope all of the orange reflects her bright and cheery personality!
5. On other fronts, I have two weeks to prepare myself for a school year of excitement. I won't continuously remind myself that Mellow and I are
yet to be on time to an 8:45 aerobics class {school starts for me at 7:45am. Like Whoa.} and payback for my lazy summer will come in the form of 5:30am mornings. A whole hour and a half earlier than my husband - he will totally wallow in that, as he has left Mellow and I still sleep in bed every morning at 8am...which might be why we can never make it on time. Anyways, I am teaching a full load which includes a new AP {Advanced Placement} class that I am excited about. PLUS, I received admittance to graduate school {Educational Leadership} yesterday. B has been so supportive. Class start August 13th. Deep breaths. There's no way I'm keeping my sanity in the midst of all this - clearly, though, that was not my goal this year.