Do You Remember?

The last day of school is here upon us in TXas. And now the kids will all be home for the day, and everyone will run around finding things to do.

And Claire said to me, "It'll be over too fast, and pretty soon we'll all be back in school," all disappointed like.

And so I said, "Well, it's only the first day of summer. You have the whole thing in front of you right now."

Do you remember that? Oh I do. I remember hopping joyfully down the school bus stairs and practically running the whole way home. We had to go about a quarter of a mile to get to the school bus, maybe a little more than that. I remember walking to that bus stop in some nasty cold snow. Oh but not on the first day of summer. No, that was a day for skipping and dreaming and thinking of all the adventures I would have.

First there would be the trampoline and sprinklers. And then there would be trips to the pool. Oh, and don't forget the sleepovers any night of the week. Imagine that! Any old night of the week I could go on over to Christy Walker's house. Or she maybe could come to mine. And when I got older and we had the tree house that we could sleep in! Well, you can just forget about it. It was stupendous. (Can you tell I really am trying to make stupendous happen?)

Oh, I knew I'd get to go to the library and get as many books as I wanted. And I would curl up on a porch, under a tree, in my bed, on a couch - just any place at all, really. I would read to my heart's content. I even remember that one summer when I started my script for Anne of Green Gables because I just knew it would make the perfect movie. And then someone else came along and stole my idea and made it into a movie. I was disappointed that someone dare do such a thing. But then I couldn't stay mad too long. Because how can one stay mad when Megan Fellows was such a perfect Anne. I still have a crush on Jonathan Crombie (aka Gilbert Blythe)...hello. I was even in love with Gilbert Blythe before the movie.

But I especially like that there it was, a whole summer of delightsome adventures to be had. Yep, today is the first day of summer vacation!