WORTHINGTON — Memorial Day seems to be the official start of summer. School days are ending, graduation parties have begun and vacations are being planned. I can still remember how excited I was as a kid for summer to come and for school to be over.
School was OK, but summer was so much more fun. There was time to play outside, to go swimming and to visit my cousins. As a farm kid, the challenges of rock picking, bean walking and corn detasseling were bearable as they provided spending money for later.
But the best part of summer was probably the fact that I didn’t have to be in school for three months. No more classes and no more homework. More time to focus on the fun stuff (yes, even pulling weeds).
As a kid, I didn’t realize how difficult the summer was for my parents. In fact, I didn’t truly understand that there was really no easy time to manage our family household, let alone us children. Perhaps in some ways, summer is even more challenging.
During the school year, you’re competing with after-school activities and homework and playdates and snow days. In the summer, you’re wrestling with a different kind of busy — the kind where camps and vacations and fun days at the pool with friends can make it hard to keep a routine. If anything, summer is where not being in a routine is actually the routine.
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