Summer Time

Summer Time has officially hit Waco, Texas. Steadily and consistently for the past week the temperature has reached triple digits everyday! I shouldn't just say everyday, for there have been many times I have gotten in my car at 5:00 and 6:00 at night and have seen 100+ degrees staring back at me from the dashboard. Heat is one thing, then add humidity and we have a full-blown heat wave. That is summer in Texas....and it's only JUNE!

Technically for me, summer doesn't start with the hot weather. Summer actually started 17 days ago when school ended! And, it's summer vacation that actually reminds me of why I teach 10 months out of the year. Teaching is SO rewarding and I love every hour of it (I hesitate to say second or minute), but it has been days like the ones that I have had this June that have given me the frame of mind to return to it again in August!

We had a discussion with some friends over dinner tonight and one of them said, "Man it must be nice to be a teacher. You really have the best gig!" It sure would seem like that when I actually have all day, any given day of the week to do what I please. However, ask me to do something during August through May and I might (probably will) have to decline.

But, that is another discussion, for another time. Tonight I am releasing the peace that I have been experiencing the last 2 and a half weeks. Even though I am thousands of miles from my family (whom I love so much) I am SO blessed to be surrounded by such GREAT friends here in the Lone Star State.

I might have mentioned that I have had everyday to do whatever I please, but that however does not mean that I have done nothing! On the contrary, I have done EVERYTHING! Read this blog as the introduction paragraph to my "What I did this Summer" essay that I am in the process of completing. (I really need to step out of the 4th grade mindset....I guess 3 weeks still isn't enough!) Needless to say, come back to see what I have experienced so far this summer, and to take part in my adventures yet to come!