Summer break, my annual audition for retirement began yesterday after I finished getting my classroom cleaned, organized (that might be a stretch), and stored for the summer cleaning and learning season.
This year’s edition is seventy days long. It will be filled with family, grandies, travel, baseball, creativity, and dogs. I can’t wait.
TRAVEL and GRANDIES
This summer my wife and I will be traveling to Europe for a two-week vacation starting in London, then Wales, back to London, then to Paris, and finishing in Amsterdam before returning home. I am excited and nervous all at the same time. This trip is similar to the one I took fifteen years ago to take my father’s cremains home, except this time we will return our step-mother’s cremains to where she wanted to spend eternity. Like that trip to honor my father, I plan to blog along the way.
Summer would be summer without a few weeks as the lake. This year we will host our grandies for the first time. We are excited and looking forward to the summer with the family.
CREATIVITY
A couple of summers ago, I took a class on Adobe Express a graphic editing software. Ever since, I have been using it to create. Last fall I shared it with students and they created some amazing graphics to show how we are able to see an object. It was pretty cool what they created.
I’ve been creative as well. The graphic above was created with Adobe Express. In fact all of the graphics for this post have been created with Adobe Express.
BASEBALL
The past several summers have been spent chasing down baseball stadiums and I have one stadium remaining before I have been all thirty of major league’s teams. Boston and Fenway Park are circled on my calendar for August 1-3 for a three day series between the Houston Astros and the Boston Red Sox. Fenway Park is the oldest stadium in the major leagues. It opened in 1912 and has been the home of the Red Sox ever since. I look forward to visiting New England and maybe catching up with a fellow blogger. I hope you are reading! I will keep you posted.
Today is going to be a full day. Errands, packing, loading, working, volunteering, and making the day count. So I had better jump up, jump in, and seize the day. Making the Days Count, one day at a time, especially when the account has seventy.
What could you do with seventy days of vacation?
What a great summer you have planned!! And grands at the lake! Perfect. Enjoy Europe, even though it’s kind of sad for you too. The lake picture? Hard to choose but I think I like the colored one best, it screams SUMMER!
Dawn, thank you for stopping in… I agree the color pops in the graphic and I’ll be playing with this a little more throughout the summer. We are headed to Michigan to move our daughter into her first apartment this weekend. Excited and nervous. It’s is going to be a great day. Enjoy your weekend.
I love this great post with all the intentions. I know you are going to enjoy every day of this “audition for retirement.” So clever — and creative!
Europe, Fenway Park and the lake?? Amazing! Happy Summer, Clay!
Thank you Wynne! I am excited AND nervous. There is always so much to do in what seems like a lot of time, but days pass quickly, sometimes too quickly. Often I overreach and don’t get stuff done that I wanted to do. This year I hope to ‘right size’ my expectations. Have a wonderful week and I am looking forward to that sign!