Summer

So summer's right around the corner! I can remember back in elementary school when summer took forever to come. You went back to school on that Tuesday after Labor Day, and it already felt like summer was long gone... May rolled around, and you thought that last month of school would drag on forever...

Whatever happened to that?! Why is it that the older you get, the faster life passes you by? You have more responsibilities. More schoolwork, chores, recreational events. So shouldn't you be more annoyed at how far summer really is? Or do we just have a better concept of 24 hours in a day, 7 days a week, 4 1/2 weeks a month, and 9 months until summer as we get older?

Maybe we just have too much free time as kids. We don't know what to do with ourselves. We explore adventure after adventure until our parents' limits control our boundaries. Whatever the case, life is almost too fast now.

Oh! And on top of all of that. When summer DID arrive, it felt like the full three months, when we were in elementary school. Now that we're teenagers, three months feels like three days. Legit.


We're working on setting up for college. Dual enrollment. Yippee. Two years away from actually heading off to college for four years.... yet we have to worry about transferring credits, majoring in certain subjects, and the biggie. Financial support. Can you afford two years let alone four??


Let's just say, time flies, whether you're having fun or not.