Ending Thoughts

Summer is winding down.

H has taken well to occasional bottle feedings (we’re preparing for our gigs at the end of this month), and is starting to smile and grin more, and to sleep longer hours during the night. N has been super cooperative and helpful and really into The Little House in the Big Woods. She liked The Mouse and the Motorcycle earlier this summer, and then tolerated Ribsy, but this book is a favorite. In our first two days of reading, we covered over 100 pages. The last two nights haven’t been so heavy, though, since she’s fallen asleep rather quickly and early.

Sure, there’s work, like laundry, dishes, cleaning up, and so on, but at the moment I have no other projects on heating burners. Maybe it’s partly because the garden has all at once found itself in a lull, or maybe my head cold has me in slow motion, or else it’s the loomation of school just ahead, but I’m not really in to doing things, these past couple days.

I’m excited for school, actually. I’ve already been doing some of the groundwork for the year, and today a friend who is also a teacher came out to swap activities ideas. I’ve made an “about me” photo slideshow that’s accompanied by music by my band. I think I’ll have it play in the background during parent night next week, and I’ll also show it to my students on the first day of school.

After that, it will be off to waivered accountability.