Under My Feet

Checking my blog stats today, I saw that some readers clicked on this post from a year ago.  Funny thing is, I was just about to write a post about how I’m already feeling overwhelmed with summer.  I guess some things never change!

Maybe “overwhelmed” isn’t the right word.  I’m certainly off-balance.  There’s just something about summer that feels like New Year’s Part Two; I find myself making all sorts of commitments to positive change, my heart full of exclamation points at the possibilities.  It’s just….how exactly do I go about making those changes?  And why do I get so revved up at such an incredibly inopportune time (ie:  5 kids home all the time, temperatures outside rivalling those on the Sun)?

With so many ideas for change – I’m going to teach the kids to cook!  We’re going to go to storytime every week! – all I really end up doing is sitting and staring off into space.  I feel so incredibly unproductive, even while in my head I am scheming and dreaming and planning.

These first few weeks of summer are such a hard transition period for me.  I just hope I can hold on to some of those “big plans” and not be completely undone by my kids and the heat.

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