School starts next week. I have mixed feelings, mostly because I dread the thought of homework and getting tasks assigned by other people done within their time frame as much as my children might if they weren't SO EXCITED about learning and seeing their friends again.
So, to calm myself, I've made a list of things I accomplished this summer:
1. Enjoyed three glasses of wine a week. Minimum.
2. Spent time with family and friends doing random enjoyable things, usually involving food.
3. Got one speeding ticket. (I'm telling you--that stretch of highway between Raton & Las Vegas, NM is just BEGGING me to pin it.)
4. Family bike outings. I think we managed three.
5. Completed one course towards my Masters.
6. Started a lung cancer screening program at the hospital where I work. (With the help of many, many, many other people.) And managed, somehow, to not work more than 50 hours a week.
7. GARDEN
8. Managed to get through summer, because of Camp Grandma, Camp Cousins and Camp Bike Shop, only needing to put my children in a sub-par summer day program for three weeks out of the summer.
9. Managed to not forget anyone's birthday. So far.
10. Went to the Sand Dunes . . . once.
( . . . sigh . . .)
So, here's a half-hearted toast to summers' end, and to high expectations for next summer.
