Summer Blues

I have been sad to realize my summer break is not the wonderful 3 month break of my childhood, but a month and a half break. As a counselor, I have to stay 5 days after the school year and start five days early - check off two weeks; our school has to make up for every snow day we took off from the winter - check off four days; I will most likely be putting in at least 5 days for curriculum writing - and there goes one more week. For those keeping track, I just lost a whole month. My first official day of vacation won’t begin until the first week of July. I miss being in Montana where school ends May 30th.

I know people who have full year jobs have probably stopped reading my complaints thinking in disgust that I should be happy with any break I get…but having such a strong association with summer break from childhood and college days, it is hard to say summer break and only get to enjoy half of it. Where is the joy in that?!

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