What I Learned on My Summer Vacation
What I learned this summer, by Jen Laird White.
First thing…it’s about two weeks too long and when you throw the Jewish holidays in there after TWO DAYS, two measly days, OF SCHOOL….I just don’t think God, whoever he or she is, would do such a thing. Particularly if she is a she. There is not a she on this earth or floating above it that would have mothers do the whole back to school, let’s get on a schedule, get out of bed, make the lunch, do you have your backpack, here are your socks, did you brush your teeth, forget about making your bed well do that next week routine for two days, TWO DAYS and then CANCEL SCHOOL for god related reasons. No god is cruel enough to taunt a mother with the two days of freedom, two days after a summer of running Camp Mommy, two days to do something that actually involves being a human not a mother only to snatch that new found freedom away for the Jewish holidays. And can I point out that it wasn’t even the most solemn of Jewish holidays that we got off. But don’t get me started. Let us just say that this is a decision clearly not made by god but by a schoolboard largely made up of men and those with grown children. And let us just say that nice mommy was really and truly mean mommy by the end of it all. I was even scared of me. But it’s over. And I’m sitting at the computer.
So what did I learn during the seventy three days but who’s counting that make up our summer holiday? Plus the four for the lesser of the serious Jewish holidays. A lot. LOT. I think I’ll just itemize.