This time of year, and this year in particular, I feel as if I am on the precipice of a new time. My youngest child is about to start driving -God help us all! :); my older son will be starting at a new college, I am going to ramp up my job search, and the summer is coming to an end.
School buses will be running again, the alarm clock will be cajoling me out of bed at 6 AM once again. Ugh! At least I have kept up with going to the gym since I joined. I am proud of that. As a matter of fact, I don't think I would have made it trudging around the Disney parks if I hadn't gone to the gym for a month to increase my cardio strength and would not have been able to lug that luggage as easily if I had not used resistance machines.
Watching one's child learn to drive is as nerve wracking as it gets. I have been through it once and I am not looking forward to a repeat performance. It is not that I don't have faith in my sons abilities to learn to be good drivers. I do. It is that they have to share the road with a host of knuckleheads and idiots and that is what worries me more. If they were going to be on the road alone I would have few worries. Nowadays, drivers are so distracted that each and every time you go out driving it is like playing a video game; things jump out at you, people cut you off, people stray into your oncoming lane, people end up off the road altogether if they have been texting, etc. ....only in this game, you don't get to restart your life if an accident occurs. I know once again, I am just going to have to suck it up and hope for the best.
There has not been much good news on the jobs front lately. Most businesses have been hunkering down hoping to ride out the recession and remain intact. Not too many are adding to their staff. So, it is a tough job seeking market out there. I will find something at some point, I know, but it may not be the ideal situation. I will have to accept that fact before I start looking.
We went through the College Freshman year with my older son last year; he went to a large state University out of our home state; this year he has transferred to a different school and will be commuting to it from home. This will present him with a host of new challenges, I am sure. All will be fine, but as a family, will have to help him through the adjustment period yet again. I hope it sticks this time!
Finally, on the slow HOT ending to summer....this year it will be a more than welcome sight to see the calendar turn to September. That will mean cooler, drier air is around the corner. This has been one brutally hot and humid summer. It has been atypically hot and humid for almost the whole summer. It has been far less enjoyable than usual. I hope next summer is more tolerable. I can deal with 80, even 90 degrees if it is not humid. That humidity makes you want to sit down and do a whole lot of nothing. My lovely garden for which I had such high hopes at the beginning of the season fizzled mid July due to not enough rain and way too much hot sun. My favorite shrub in all of my garden (Lace Cap Hydrangea) actually died a slow and agonizing death due to a fungus brought on by uneven watering conditions. That was hard to watch. I finally cut it all back today. I could not stand that drama for one more day. There were a mere 3 live branches left and they were not looking very well. I decided to put both of us out of our misery and give it a dignified burial in the compost pile.
So as one chapter of our lives starts to fade, (the summer, the childhood of my 16 year old, the unemployment of Ivy) another more interesting one begins. I am an eternal optimist; I do believe that old saying that when a door closes a window opens. My younger son will drive and I will survive watching him learn to do so. I may even get a night's sleep once in a while even if he is out with the car (yeah, right!!). I will find a decent job and start the work cycle once again. Maybe I will even get a boss that is human this time and not a troll. The fall will come and we will rejoice in the changing leaves (all the while cursing the raking and blowing of them). All good things will come to an end and then other good things will take their place. Such is life.
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