12/22/2023 0 Comments Conjure coffee hours![]() ![]() These almost endless summer days of nothing but heat and boredom did not work out well for my psyche. And somehow I’m lucky enough to be down in the mud, elbows deep in the dirt for it all.Īs for me, I’m also happy about the return to routine. These are going to be the moments that are the building blocks for the foundation for the rest of their lives. And holy crap, there’s something magical in that. All the wonderful things that we take for granted and all the shitty things we have forgotten, they are just at the very beginning of that their own hero’s journey to finding it all. These kids are on the path of discovering everything. And watching them walk into the wild unknown of their own uncharted territory is pretty fucking frightening.īut it’s pretty exciting too. However, they are the most important people in my life. I don’t think that, I don’t want that, I don’t need that to be true. I am not delusional or egotistical enough to think that I am the most important person in their lives. It’s not any easier watching them walk into a building without a glance back at you either. That empty gut feeling of watching a bus carry away this person you love more than you love yourself never feels less scary. I still haven’t gotten used to the whole process of sending them off on the first day. Their best will be measured by their own feelings of accomplishment and enjoyment. Their best will not be able to be measured in ways that will be reflected by scores on standardized tests or my letters on report cards. And I know, they are going to do their best. With middle school on the horizon for one and first grade for the other, this year will be one where trying will be the key. They each have their own struggles (I’ve talked about here) but they still try. Not because they get perfect grades or win lots of awards, but because no matter what, they really freaking try. Anxiously excited? Cautiously optimistic? Scared out of my freaking gourd? Which makes me feel a whole host of things at the same time. (Miss M, due to a late birthday, falls just a little shy of making the kindergarten start date and will have to wait an additional year before she joins the fellas.)Ĭome the middle of this month the boys will be back to business as usual. In just a few weeks, ⅔ of the kiddos that have filled up this house all summer long with their laughing and yelling,scrabbling and giggling will be returning to school. For us here at the Conjure and Coffee house, summer vacation is almost over. ![]()
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