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V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N!
July 1st, 2010 | 
Author: “Summer Vacation”…two words that leave a mother with a feeling of impending doom or ebullition!
I’m in the latter group. We LIVE for summer vacation…no alarm clocks to wake us, no agendas to fill, no homework to burden our nights. Nuthin’ but a whole lotta fun and (hopefully) a whole lotta sun!
In MinneSOOOta, we’re stuck inside for 9 months of the year…so when the sun shines (and it’s above freezing) we venture outside. We slather on the sunscreen and the bug spray and we soak it in…’cuz we know all to well that very, very soon we’ll be stuck inside. Dressed in layer upon layer and hoping our noses don’t freeze and fall off the next time we walk outside.
Anywho, back to summer. It’s awesome.
I am a mother who counts down the days of school WITH my children. The mother who gets just as excited for summer as I did when I was in school. I even went so far as to deny my 8 year old gymnastics this summer because, and I quote, “I don’t want to spent my summer in a gym!”
Hmmmm…now that I’ve written that, I wonder…does that make me a bad mom? I felt a little guilty, at first, when I told her that…but I knew that she would insist on me NOT leaving while she was there, and I’ll be damned if I was gonna sit in recycled air conditioning when I could be sitting beside a tennis court or a t-ball field breathing in fresh, clean air and soakin’ up the Vitamin D!
Now that I’ve confessed that, I sort of feel like I’ve just made myself out to be the “Summer Nazi”.
The, “YOU WILL ENJOY SUMMER WITH EVERY OUNCE OF YOUR BEING, SO HELP ME GOD!” crazy mother.
Uh oh. Will this be yet another thing my children blame me for in therapy when they get older?
Great.
Something else to worry about…
*Shrugs*…In the mean time, I’ve got to get my kids to tennis.
And t-ball…not to mention the beach…golf lessons…Little League…oh, and there’s bug spray to apply, sunscreen to slather…
Guess I don’t have time to worry! 
I hope you are enjoying your summer!
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