Mother Nature: Saying Good-bye to School
By Leslie Lindsay It may be that I am the worst mother in town. You see, I love my kids…but I don’t want school to be out for summer. Nope. No way. Nada. Sure, they are excited. And I remember that joyous, carefree feeling of flying out of the school doors on the last day and thinking, “Whoo—hoo! Good-bye school and heeellllooo summer.” As an elementary kid, that was just about the best feeling in the world. I had it all planned out in my mind: pool and trips to the local attractions like the zoo and Six Flags, if I could get mom to take me. In all honesty, my summers were pretty fun. It didn’t always mean the big pool, but perhaps the plastic one with the built-in-slide shaped like a turtle. It meant popsicles and the smell of mom’s Hawaiian Tropic suntan oil (back before we cared about high SPF). It meant mac ‘n cheese for lunch everyday because I wasn’t buying school lunch. Yet, I wonder how my mom felt about …