a longer fuse
The trouble with staging, this striving to make our home feel like a hotel, is eventually you succeed, and this living in a hotel leads to the kids looking at me with eyes that plead: What now?
Boredom leads to bickering over who swims The Best, debated within what Jennifer Grey would agree is my personal space, their words bouncing off our empty walls.
(The fact that they both swim better than me, the weak link in the swimming gene pool, escapes them. It always makes me chuckle.)
In a few short days, I will be whisked away to Bermuda for the week and soon after, school starts again. I strive to live in the here and now, but this looking ahead helps me let out my fuse and hold my tongue.
Summer has but a short shelf life.
Boredom leads to bickering over who swims The Best, debated within what Jennifer Grey would agree is my personal space, their words bouncing off our empty walls.
(The fact that they both swim better than me, the weak link in the swimming gene pool, escapes them. It always makes me chuckle.)
In a few short days, I will be whisked away to Bermuda for the week and soon after, school starts again. I strive to live in the here and now, but this looking ahead helps me let out my fuse and hold my tongue.
Summer has but a short shelf life.
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i'd have so made the very most of that summer!
um, it seems to me that if you make your house feel like a hotel, you make *you* feel like a housekeeper, yes?
*i'm* going for summer camp house. everyone's in charge of their own laundry!
Summer is too short to have to do this not fun moving stuff. I admire you living in a staged home, I can't keep ours clean (luckily there are no more showings).
You'll have a wonderful fun time in Bermuda and everyone can act like they should in the summer (I am typing with a whole lot of 4 year old assistance...)
Sadly, we have only 11 days left until school starts again. Where -- oh where?-- did the time go??