This has been a crazy busy week with barely enough time to breathe. I even had to ask Stace to put in a special appearance last night to help me get everyone where they needed to go and to get everything done. (She's not usually here on Wednesdays.) I'm three days behind on reading the newspaper again, which is a sign that things are pretty crazy.
Somewhere in the middle of all of this, I realized that I'm going to fall off of a cliff in late June when the kids head to Utah for several weeks. I'll go from not having a spare moment to having so much time to myself that I won't know what to do. Stace won't be going to Utah at all this year. Grandparents, aunts, and uncles are all generously pitching in to help take care of the kids during a good chunk of the summer. I'll be out there for a couple of weeks, but I obviously can't take three months off of work.
Stace and the kids have spent the past several summers in Utah to make life easier for her, so I'd gotten used to being away from the kids for a long stretch, but it feels different this time. Since I'm the sole parent the majority of the time, those two little monsters depend on me. It'll be weird to suddenly be without that. I'll have to figure out how to fill the void.
It was easy in Switzerland. Every Saturday, I'd hop a train and ride through the Alps or visit the Matterhorn or Geneva or something along those lines. This summer, my only train option will be to ride the light rail from the Mall of America to the Warehouse District in downtown Minneapolis. That doesn't quite have the same appeal. Maybe I'll just have to go to every Twins home game or read every Shakespeare play or something like that.
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And during that time you can also have relief not getting behind reading the newspaper.
In fact, subscribe to a few more papers and read those along with Shakespeare.
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