Oh look! I overslept, and it’s Friday!
One
One more week of online classes for the kids, and then exams, and then we can get down to the serious business of cramming everything we forgot to do into the two weeks left before I have to turn in all my paper work. Gosh I love Summer. It’s so much the best.
Two
I’m probably going to do a Facebook live video of my garden. Facebook keeps telling me to do videos, and I am nothing if not compliant, but I literally have nothing to say into the little camera of my magical phone, so I will go around waving it at the lilacs and tulips. Also, it will happen without warning, because it’s best to keep you on your toes.
Three
Now that there is a real end to the school year creeping up on me, I’ve already started looking around at the dismal piles of boxes I’ve been shoving here and there “for later.” This July will be two whole years in this house, so maybe I should unpack the stuff in the attic and light everything on fire. Not literally, of course, but with all the metaphors available to hand.
Four
As per usual, I am excited about the summer and all the free time I’ll have to do all the major projects I intended to do all during the year but didn’t. I’m going to paint a couple of rooms, read fifty books, reorganize every single cupboard, write hundreds of things, sew all the buttons back on everything, cope with the big stack of paper in the corner, get in shape, and ascend that holy mountain with my clean hands and pure heart. It’s going to be fantastic.
Five
Also, and this is for real, I’m gonna teach the boys to do laundry. The girls sort of just figured it out on their own. But the boys continue to languish helplessly, complaining about having nothing to wear, but never considering that if they took some of their clothes, any of them that are lying around on the floor in strange clumps mixed with dirt and grime, and put them in the big white thing with the nobs that when you turn them makes water come out and swishes it around until everything doesn’t smell like death and misery, they could then put them on their persons and “have things to wear.”
Six
Looking at the calendar, though, we aren’t going to be home much. So I’m not exactly sure when all this will happen. Probably magically, because that’s how it works every year.
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