Let the insanity begin!

I can hear the cries of excitement among the young ones and the cries of anguish among the moms.... it is the last day of school It barely even qualifies as a day, since they will go, eat junk food, watch a movie and then come home, sort of just a cruel tease for me... And then it begins... summer - the good, the bad and the ugly! Wow! It always starts off great, pools, camps, etc., then the "I'm bored....," eating me out of house and home, neighbor friends coming in and out of my house, cleaning literally thousands of little fingerprints off my glass door. Okay, let's just call summer off now that I think about it.

Bethany, my 13-year-old girl with cerebral palsy and mild mental retardation, will be attending a day camp every weekday. She loved this last year. They get to bowl, play at water park, see movies, go to the park, and the list goes on, and the MHMR staff are so great working with the special needs kids. So she's pretty much set for summer. The boys (10 and 7) have camps, etc. throughout the summer which I practically have to get another mortgage to pay for, but worth it right... for their personal growth and experiences in life and of course, a worthy investment in my sanity. I personally love the lazy days at the pool. I reserve my reading of actual novels until summer because only when am I AWAY from the house do I not feel compelled to be productive. At the pool life is always good, dishes don't matter, bills don't matter, time does not matter! My favorite part of summer is the pool and I would spend my entire summer sunbathing with a book if I had that option.

So yes, I guess I'm ready. I just wish my 40-year-old-had-3-c-sections-and-never-fully-recovered body was a little more swimsuit ready!! Oh well... no one but the other old moms and dads like me are there to see me anyway because to anyone under 25 we are all just old and not much is expected of us. This is also when I do my thing where I think how I definitely look better than that person, or that person, or that person... it's my little game, wrong maybe, but I keep it to myself and it helps me take a little less pressure off myself to be superwoman.