With it being the last weekend before back to school I can’t help but feel like I have failed this summer. At the beginning of it I was ready for weekly trips to the aquarium and zoo and hiking in state parks and venturing to Kings Dominion. Instead we did none of that. We did make it to a zoo but it wasn’t our zoo and we went to Hershey Park but those are small comforts.
The problem is we run our own business and when May and June took a downturn the business needed our attention more than anything else. That meant a lot of the summer was spent working, and with us having trouble hiring someone to cover the Ocean Front area that means we had to work in our business more than we had before.
With the kids back in school hiring could get easier. It has been hard to schedule times to interview people while they have been at home. Mainly because of our inability to hire someone for the Ocean Front area.
I would like to say I enjoy being around my children but there are times when they get so wild and crazy it becomes impossible to function. The times of just sitting and talking with them are rare enough that when they do happen they feel magical and fantastic. I feel like I am learning new things about my own children.
Right now I am feeling like I am going to miss them when they go back to school. Even if they are tearing this house apart with more success than an eight ton wrecking ball. Nothing is safe that ends up in their path. I don’t know what we can do today, and I don’t really feel like going anywhere, but we do owe it to them. We should get them out for some sort of activity. A last adventure before heading back to school.
That won’t change the fact that I let this summer waste away and didn’t take them to one minor league baseball game or to Chuckie Cheese or to any of the other countless places I thought we would get to.
We had a family trip to Wal-Mart yesterday and that felt like a fun adventure. We looked for new water bottles and computer mouses for their chrome books they will get the second week of school, but that is more of an errand than fun.
This is our last weekend before back to school, and we should figure out something to do together or I really will have failed this summer.
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