despite warnings, May always catches me by surprise

[alchimie]

'Tis May, the busy month of May, in which school & other activities for my children have a last flurry before they wind down for summer. Thus there are celebrations for the children and celebrations for the volunteers and a week of teacher appreciation and a few last field trips and fundraiser forms are due and yearbooks are on sale and there's open house and a school art night, and next year's Girl Scouts must be organised in various ways (memberships renewed, girls confirmed, new uniforms explained, camping trips booked far in advance), and there's a book fair and one last round of Scholastic book orders and the day camp schedule for summer must be finalised -- everything is happening each day that must happen, more or less or exactly, but it is quite full, even more so than usual.

As for me, myself, I am reading around the edges and trying to prioritise sleep and planning a trip to Montreal & Quebec City in early June, but I do not really know what I think about anything except getting the next things done and then stopping thinking about getting things done to breathe more deeply.