The next week of summer

My brain has been having a wonderful rest and rejuvenation. Of course, I haven't talked to a brain surgeon or a brain specialist but I do feel more relaxed and I'm getting quite a bit of energy back!

Last Monday, we had a house guest, I looked after two very cute grandkids, and two other cute little grandkids stopped in to visit with their parents. It was a wonderful, happy, noisy time of connection! Then two of the grand-ones and myself went to visit Anna (daughter), had a little snack, went for a swim, stopped for a moment in a playground, then headed home. As we turned onto Main St., near our house, I decided we would stop into a bakery for some apricot loaf (yumm!!) We then stopped for gas and went through the car wash with the multi-coloured drops soap that gets sprinkled all over the windows. (wow!)

Then we headed for home. I still had energy but the little kids were very tired! Haa! Ahaah!!

Aaah, summer.

Summer and space

I have requested space for myself this summer. I realized after an intense year of teaching, I need a bit of a brain-space break. I say intense year because I love the job and intense because of the variety of characters that I teach and the fact that they are all such individual and interesting people, and some are just simply intense young people! These are Grade 4 students...9 and 10 year olds.

So I've requested a couple of weeks of just being with myself and resting and doing whatever I feel inclined to do. This includes playing the violin, bike riding, going to the library, reading newspapers and my current book, going for walks, talking with God, visiting my family when I choose and relaxing in the evening with my main man, George.

For me, taking this time is harder than it appears. For one, I have 4 grandchildren whom I love! Sometimes my sense of doing things for others clicks in and I begin to feel obliged to DO. Then I am reminded to lean back and take this time. This is why I have time to write this blog!

I was just reading my current book, "A Circle of Quiet" by Madeleine L'Engle. She wrote about loving becoming 50. "To be half a century plus is wonderfully exciting, because I haven't lost any of my past, and am free to stand on the rock of all the the past has taught me as I look towards the future."

Here's to the future! It's early afternoon and I think I might go out for a bike ride and pick up some milk and mail a letter!!
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