End of Summer Musings

This week is kind of no man's land.  The two big impetuses (impeti?  Ha!  I looked it up - 4th declension so the plural is the same as the singular - impetus) for the summer, Becky's musical and Sean's art class are now finished.  Sean finished last Thursday (with a 90 for the final!) and Becky's last show was Sunday afternoon, plus she helped strike the set, repaint the stage floor (the group promised to do that for the high school) and then went to a party at a pizza restaurant for a few hours.  So yesterday, Monday, I let them sleep as long as they wanted and they basically did nothing all day.  Becky has been having long do-nothing days anyway, as she waited for the evenings and rehearsals.  Anyway, enough of this!  I am really feeling the need to get back to a better routine.  However, this week is just a weird week.  This coming Saturday we leave for the beach.  I am really looking forward to that.   But what to do with our time this week?  Here's what I want to do:

• Get the house to a reasonably clean house state for the house sitter
• Get the dog bathed and nails clipped
• Get to the library so everyone has books to read plus audio books to listen to on the way down and back
• Run some sundry errands (medicine, pet supplies, buy sheets for the downstairs bedroom)
• Go see the Peter Pan production nearby - some traveling show that is actually held in a big circus tent
• Sean is probably going to leave earlier to go with his CLC group which is planning to leave for Busch Gardens Thursday night, spend Friday at Busch Gardens, Saturday morning at Virginia Beach, which is where we are headed that day!  So hopefully somehow we'll be able to pick him up there.
• Because Sean leaves earlier than us that means he's got to get all his math done this week.
• Sean also needs to practice bass and go to bass lessons tomorrow, plus CLC Wed night.

My hopes for vacation:

• Lots of walks on the beach and staring out over the ocean
• Prayer - still doing the Marian Consecration
• lots of reading - I think I'll focus on classic children's books I've not read yet
• I think I'll bring a sketchpad and some pencils.
• This sounds awful in a way but I think I'll bring a Latin book to study up on, since I'll be teaching it this coming year and Becky and I didn't get far with our study this summer.
• I hope to have lots of long chats with Hannah
• I hope Will makes it down - it would be nice to hang out with him
• Hopefully we'll do lots of board game playing and sharing meals - good family together time.
• I'd like to explore Virginia Beach since I've never been there even though I've lived in VA for 51 years!