We are down to 33 days of school remaining this year. I know, I am certain, that I shouldn't wish away the next 6-1/2 weeks, but our summers are just so fabulously relaxing...and so much less stressful. It's not just the schedule of school, it is other, some little, some big, things that make it challenging. Catherine does well, but there is just so much meanness and drama with middle school girls. For Robert and Thomas the challenges are school specific, and they can truly make me feel like a parent fail. I know that it isn't my job to "do" school for them, but it is my job to guide them and help them to be successful...and I just don't know how to do that very well it seems. At least it feels that way.
But right now we are at the weekend! Andrew has taken Thomas to the Reds game for the evening. I admire their fortitude as the wind chill is currently 31 degrees. It even rained earlier, and you know that had to be a bone-cold rain. Fortunately it didn't last terribly long, and I'm grateful they took this in together. Thomas absolutely loves Joey Votto, and I'm glad that he's able to see the game in person. Catherine was supposed to have a track meet this evening, but it was cancelled due to the weather. Robert is volunteering three days a week at the community resource center, and this is one of those days. The older two and I have spent the evening mostly just hanging out around the house and I've appreciated the down time.
Tomorrow I have to attend a baby shower and some friends are coming over for the evening. Sunday morning is a youth activity at church, and then we were just invited over to my cousin's house in the evening for a quick surprise gathering for my uncle's 70th birthday. I'm grateful that our weekend isn't overly packed, because we have reached that point of the school year where the weeks are unbelievably full. We wouldn't know to appreciate the down time though, if it was like that all the time!
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