The Busy Life of a Single Mom

Yes. I know (and I apologize), I haven’t been around much. It seems things keep getting in the way of my downtime, but I will have lots more now because starting today I am officially on SUMMER VACATION!!!  Can you tell I’m excited?   We actually got out on Friday, but I didn’t consider myself on vacation until today as we are always out on Saturdays and Sundays – that makes today the first OFFICIAL day of summer vacation!!

So what are my plans? Well I’d love to tell you nothing, but sadly that’s not the case.  I actually plan to work at least 3 or 4 days a week for 2 to 4 hours a day on curriculum. This was my first year to teach all four levels of English at the high school so I did good to just keep my head above water at times; however, I now have some idea of where I want each grade to go so I plan to do as much planning as possible this summer to make the upcoming school year a little less stressful.

We also have a Disney trip in August so I have tons of last minute planning to do. We’ll have to develop a tshirt plan (we always wear matching tshirts), Cameron needs a Cinderella dress (her birthday present) and I plan to make our autograph books this time too. Oh, and we still need to scrapbook our Christmas trip.

What else? Well I NEED (yes need) to get in some quality time with my best friend that lives 3 hours away. We haven’t done so yet, and I am totally missing her.  I need the quality down time and girl bonding. 

Hmm..and Becka is signed up for two camps this month that she’ll need transported to, and Cameron is signed up for the reading program at our local library which is two days a week throughout June.

Oh yes, and I MUST get on some type of diet/exercise plan. I’m sooo tired of not being in shape and carrying around this extra weight.  I am trying to decide if a Wii Fit would help me (if any of you out there have one, I’d love your reviews).  I need something that will slowly get me in shape, but also that I will enjoy and therefore I will continue to do.

Wow! I almost forgot, the pool is still not open for the summer!!  I need it moved so I’m waiting on the good grace of my dad to prepare the land and help me move it.

Yes, I’m thrilled it’s summer and that I’m just moving my busy life to a new focus for a few months.  (and people think teachers get all this vacation time…lol)