Getting our schooner ready for the season is a little like getting a broadway show ready for it's run. If you aren't done, the curtain is rising anyway. In the midst of what some years becomes crazy chaos as we near our first sailing date, our kids still have school (and need to get there on time), need to be fed (hopefully something other than cereal or peanut butter and jelly for dinner), helped with homework, read to, and tucked in. The house still needs to be picked up, the bathrooms cleaned and the dust removed (at least the top layer.)
At least the garden looks good!
Especially for those of us with families, life still needs to have a sense of normalcy and when or if the sprinting happens, it's better if one is still maintaining order at home. I tend to think that I'm the only mom who entertains telling her kids to wear the same clothes two or three times because I can't keep my eyeballs open long enough to do the laundry. Or who wonders what we'll be having for dinner that evening when there was darned little for breakfast, almost nothing to put in the lunch box and no time to get to the grocery store. They do get fed, but some days it's nip and tuck.
Yesterday, a conversation with another schooner mom reminded me that I'm not the only one. I mentioned to her that I could tell this outfitting season was going pretty well because the house was still in order and the kids hadn't hadn't been late for school once. She said they'd lost it last week. And once you loose it, you can't get it back until the fall or until someone stays home from the boat to clear the wreckage.
Annie
No matter what's going on, you aren't alone
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