The end of June-ALREADY?

I am so sad it is almost the end of June. I think most of the people I work with just realized this because everyone was in a state of mourning this week. Where has the time gone? When you work in higher education, your time is marked by when the students are and aren't on campus, in large numbers that is. We all breathed a huge sigh of relief the first week of May when all of our students were gone. Now it is the "Holy $&*!", they will be here in another 8 weeks!!!

I am also sad because our weather in good old Pittsburgh has been anything but summer like. The whole month of May and most of June saw rain. I mean, we had enough toad stools in our backyard to accommodate lots and lots of toads. I was about ready to give up on growing anything but cranberries in my garden.

We have managed to have some fun though. We have had two playdates with friends at our house; we had a teacher, who is also a friend from Lucas' old daycare over for dinner; we went to Buffalo for the weekend; we had the Bright cousins over for homemade pizza and to break in our new sprinkler.

But I look ahead at all the other things I have planned for the weekends and we are now into August!!!!!! We are headed to Columbus for July 4th; we are scheduled to go to see a friend's farm outside of Wheeling; I am supposed to meet up with friends; another playdate is being planned-and I had thought about surprising my dad by going to Buffalo for his birthday weekend. What is going to happen when Lucas is old enough to actually be scheduled in HIS actvities?

I am tired just writing about this . . . .