May is a different kind of crazy busy...like December but somehow worse. Graduation parties, scholarship meetings, end of the year 4-H & Clover Kids meetings & fair entries, Junior National & State Fair entries, band & music concerts, field days, field trips...and the list goes on! I am genuinely a different kind of exhausted.
As we wind down the school year, I am feeling all the feels. Jackson will be leaving Pence to head to the middle school and I still can't believe my kids are old enough for that...to no longer be in the elementary school. We measure time here in days & weeks, well in dog terms....pregnancy & puppy stages. I seem to blink and it has been 3 months, I blink again and we are just about to enter summer.
I remember when my kids were just babies & toddler, I was longing for the days when they would be big enough to do activities. Now, I am dying for a day at home. A day where I don't leave for two days in a row is truly a miracle. The older I get, the more I just want to be home.
As I look toward the next three months, I am already sighing. We have a week long thing each month. In June. we have our County Fair. July is Junior Nationals in Tulsa. Finally, we have the Iowa State Fair in August. I am thankful that we are taking a leap of faith & having Maggie help us out this summer. Knowing we are going to be gone, I will actually be able to sleep at night with her here.
So, here's to the beginning of summer. The long nights in the barn & the lessons learned there.
Elly
