Class of 2018

What the?  Holy cow what just happened?!  I have a child that WILL GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL IN 2018!!!

How can that be?  I'm NOT OLD ENOUGH to be THINKING about having a child graduate from high school.  Seriously.  NOT OLD ENOUGH.  (My birthday is Sunday.  Maybe I'll be old enough then.  I don't think so, but maybe.)

Do you have these thoughts too?  I think you do.  We all do.  Your going along, all whatever, yada yada, and then BAM!  You look around and you're like CRAP!  How did this happen?  I have children and a dog and a mortgage and people think I'm responsible enough to be the PTA president (they are CLEARLY delusional- another post).  How does this happen?

Well, I'll tell you how it happened today.  I'm working on my to do list and I think "Oh- I should sign up for the middle school list serve so I know what is going on at our new school" so I log into the district website and there are like 25 lists you can choose from and one of them is ACMS2018...it's the latest graduating date so I then sat and thought about the 11year old and how old he'll be when he graduates... and then I was like "CRAP" and there you have it.  Be responsible, you can to freak out too.  Good times.

No, I'm not having some sort of crisis of the quarter or mid- life variety; I'm just surprised that there's a date attached to his graduating.  That's weird.  And, not something that I'd given much thought to up until today.  7 years.  That's all.  Better make the best of them.

Busy, busy...

Aren't we all?  Well, duh.  It's just how things go now-a-days.  I thought that not being employed would mean that I had loads of time to do things like re-upholster chairs and blog, but alas, it is not to be.  I still have loads of other things to do like laundry and grocery shopping.

I have noticed that I was much more efficient when I was employed, there was more structure to my goings on.   Guess having a time frame will do that to you.   Really, I knew that taking the summer off meant that I would be loafing, and that was in the design, but as the summer winds down, I find that I'm looking forward to the return of the schedule.

And, the return of the schedule must mean the return of employment too-right?  Yes, it does.  I have a few irons in the fire right now and will be re-entering the land of the "worker" in September.  Doing things that I love.  (And, getting paid)  Because, that has been my focus.

In the mean time, there's a trip to the beach for fun and a trip back to the beach for work-- we have one more visit to my FIL's place before we sell it-- we spent the weekend there this last weekend and had so much fun!  It was bittersweet for DH- he's struggling now.  It's to be expected.  We sat back and looked at the situation, it's only been 3.5 months(!!!) but feels like it's been 3.5 years.  I'll be more introspective about that later.

And, I noticed that there was a comment looking for the reward shoes photo...here you go!


 I never thought I would buy THESE shoes, but the salesman was English... and cute (not Jude Law cute but still)... and oh so persuasive...