You Know It's Almost Summer When...

You Know It's Almost Summer When...
 
1. Your children suddenly have half days of school when you wonder how it is that a working parent is supposed to want to send the child to school and retrieve him or her a mere three hours later.
 
2. The giant textbooks that have been an obstacle course through your apartment are suddenly gone, returned, yes, returned to school for the summer.
 
3. Almost every dinner table conversation involves some mention of camp--either the ones you've already signed up for, or the ones you haven't yet and should.
 
4. The bicycle that has been basically a coat rack for months has to be cleared for riding!
 
5. There is a school event almost every day or night, causing even the most dedicated of parents to go a little crazy trying to keep up.
 
6. A working parent begins to wonder if working will be easier in the summer when the kids are either in camp or sleeping later or both. Or if it will be harder, because it will mean missing an opportunity to sleep later too.
 
7. We all begin to wonder what's worse--95 degrees in June, or cold and rainy in June.
 
8. You wonder how it is that practically a whole school year has passed since that day when you nervously watched everyone starting something new.
 
9. You suddenly go from the "stay in and clean all weekend" mindset to the "where are we going this weekend" mindset.
 
10. You don't have to count all the way to ten--hey, it's almost summer!!