Summer is half over!

I love routine, in fact, I need it. If I keep a regular schedule it helps with my migraine headaches. But truth be known during some point every summer vacation I fall off the "keeping the schedule" routine and it's not pretty! Too much sleep or not enough either of which in turn often turn into migraine headaches.  Yuck!

At some point, I stay up too late, either by choice or because of lack of planning or because I'm naturally a night owl and I fall off the routine wagon. I sleep past my 5 a.m. alarm. I lay in bed and read or surf social media instead of getting my fanny out of bed in the mornings and get moving. My routine goes bye-bye. And the result-I get out of whack. I end up with migraines and that throws me off and it's a whole lot of fun-NOT.

And typically when the 4th of July rolls around all those fun haters start saying "summer is about over" or "it's all downhill from here" referring to school starting in August. I've never cared for these comments, first as a mom-I enjoyed having my kids home during the summer and spending time with them and secondly as a school employee I, plain and simple, don't want to go back!! (Okay, maybe I kind of do!)

But in truth summer is on the downside. Someone last week reminded me that we go back in five weeks...wait, WHAT?! No! That's can't be right. And I haven't looked nor do I want to at a calendar. It will arrive regardless if I know when or how many days!

But here's what I want to ask...What the heck happened to summer?! June was busy and I got a lot accomplished but what happened to the month? And as the month of July is now over halfway over I'm like a kid on their first roller coaster ride, I can't look but yet I do!

I personally feel like my summer can't be this far over, I have so much I want and plan on doing and getting done. It's the summer of stay at home, clean, purge and get stuff done. And it has been, but I guess I'm feeling like I haven't gotten done as much as I'd planned or hoped. But in reality, I have accomplished a lot. I always put way too much on my "to do" list, I always have and probably always will, it's just who I am!

So today as I was kind of looking at what is ahead and what I "want" to do and accomplish, I looked at summer in perspective of Thanksgiving or Christmas break...summer is a whole lot more time, with one small holiday in the middle but otherwise is pretty much time to do what and when you want, and get things done. Unlike Thanksgiving or Christmas breaks, both have a honking big holiday as part of the break and these holidays require quite a lot of work.

So I'm going to stop panicking or shooting nasty look every time someone mentions summer being half over or school starting soon, or back to school commercials, or the absolute worse-school supplies out on store shelves already! It is what it is. It's going to keep rolling towards us! Life with a schedule will soon make a return and that is okay. So regardless of how many days until I have to go back or school starts, a routine will soon make it's way back into my life and that's a good thing!

Here's to what's left of summer...enjoy and make memories!