I am blessed to have this Summer with my children. I have had no luck on the teaching job search and have accepted it. There is no room for frustration, anxiety or manic job searching when looking after two kids who only want your attention. I am thrilled to spend the next two months playing in the sun with my non-stop son and my busy little girl. I am dedicating myself to them and our pursuit of daily Summer fun! Who wouldn't kill for an opportunity like this? I am a very lucky Mommy.
Maxwell has one more day left of JK. My baby boy is finished his first year of school and what an amazing year it has been for him. His report card (received today) begins with "Maxwell has had a very successful year in junior kindergarten" told by his teacher Mrs. Lemere. I couldn't agree more. A perfect report card (2 for 2) tells Daddy and I about what a social, well adjusted, smart little man we have. These are things that we do already know about Max but to hear them confirmed from someone else fills us with so much pride. Max is very popular amongst his classmates, confirmed when Audrey and I walk him up to the kindergarten gate and a group of kids are already calling his name asking him to play with them. It is his ability to be so well rounded is what keeps me in awe of him.
He is smart, friendly, athletic, caring, energetic, loving and most important of all, happy. Maxwell is everything I dreamed he would be and so much more. He's the cool kid who flies into the school yard on his scooter waving to the older kids he knows. Takes off his helmut puts on his under armor hat backwards, throws his lands end lacrosse back pack on his shoulders and then crouches down and kisses his baby sister on the lips, gives her a big hug and wishes her a good day. Then follows suit with his Mommy. I want to grab onto him and beg him to freeze and never grow up. I want him to know that I am so grateful God has given him to me and feel blessed every day to be "Max's Mommy". I want him to know that he is truly an amazing person and I can't believe his Daddy and I made something so precious.
The kids are very excited about this Summer and everything it is going to bring. We are going on a family camping trip in a few weeks to Turkey Point which we have been talking about and planning for months. We have company and family picnics on the calendar, visits to the Crosbie's trailer, Canada's Wonderland, the Science Centre, the zoo, the beach, Canada Day in Cobourg and lots of swims at Pappy and Papa's pool. It won't be just the big day trips that we will remember but the days at home playing with the kids on the street, licking at popsicles and they run down our arms, slathering them up in sunscreen (or as Audrey says kun-kreen), giggling as we run through the sprinkler, playing at the park, waiting for the ice cream truck, drawing with chalk on the driveway, riding bikes and scooters and generally just soaking up as much Summer as we can to get us through the long Winter months.
First day of Summer was yesterday. According to Phineas and Ferb there are 104 of Summer vacation. So, 103 days left of pure Summer fun with my family and I couldn't be more excited to spend all of them together.
