Feeling Sad

School is out for the year--yesterday was the last day, which was followed up by a pool party* for the whole school. I'm happy that school is out--no more homework, no more spelling tests (probably the biggest plus for me) and we don't have to worry about Sweet Pea getting to bed as early. Even though she is going to go to day care everyday, that isn't as big of a deal as school.

I am feeling sad, though. For the first time since Sweet Pea was 3 months old I have to work every day. Right now the fact that I'm done working at 2:00 every day isn't really doing anything for me. I feel like I've lost my whole summer with Sweet Pea. After driving to day care and then home it will be 3:00, which kind of feels like it's too late to do anything.

I also need to get Sweet Pea in to see the psychologist, now that we know that he inattentiveness is most likely caused by ADD (hooray for no seizures). We will probably do the psychologist once a week to reap as many benefits as we can before school starts.

Anyway, I'm starting the summer out feeling kind of bummed and this is another one of those times where working for The Man looks really good. I miss my 4 weeks of vacation time and I should have negotiated more time off into my current work contract.

I am starting to formulate a plan for work next summer. Ideally, I would like to go back to my 3 day a week schedule for the summer, but I don't think that BCFG is going to go for that, so instead, I am going to offer to work 4 full days (Monday-Thursday) and then have Friday off. BCFG would actually be getting a better deal out of this than me, as I would be working a lot more hours this way. Financial stuff, like what I do, has a natural lull in the summer, so maybe they would go with the 3 full days idea after I've been there for a year and proved what a delightful employee I am. I figure that it is a good thing that I'm thinking about this now, as it will take me a full year to build up the nerve to ask Mr. X and The Big Cheese if I can do it.

Right now I am being a bad mother--Sweet Pea and The Husband are out riding bikes, which I declined to do, as it is 90 degrees and I am not a fan of 90. I wanted to do something involving water today and suggested the sprinkler park, but so far I have been shot down.

*Where I actually got sort of a tan--isn't that crazy?