Edit from the future: Yet another post sitting in my draft folder. I'm gonna try to wrap it up and publish it, backdating this to the date I wrote it.
Seasonal summer begins on June 21st, which is also Father's Day, but most of the USA thinks of summer as the time between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
This year, Memorial Day — the last Monday in May — fell on the earliest possible date on the calendar, and Labor Day — the first Monday in September,— will fall on the latest possible date on the calendar, Sept. 7. Thus we can look forward to the longest possible unofficial summer.
The 105 day span won’t happen again until 2037, though it generally happens every five to seven years.
The Friday before Memorial Day weekend was the kids' last day of school. The kids who at least once a week asked if they really had to go to school opted to go every day even though they were implicitly given permission by the educators to skip the last three days. They wanted to see their friends one last time and the last three days are essentially a party for the kids.
We packed up and headed to St Louis to meet up with Katness. When the trip was originally planned, she was gonna come down that Friday. But things happen. One kid had a baseball playoff he couldn't miss. Another had a theatre activity he also couldn't miss. So she couldn't come until Saturday, but was wiggy on the time of arrival.
This made meeting up with my one college friend that I see once in a while challenging. Initially, I was stressing about going to the Science Museum and then trying to have lunch with a bunch of people that might not cross-pollinate well.
Eventually, I just said Fuck It. And it worked out because we all sat down for lunch and were able to get separate checks.
The rest of the weekend was the usual challenge. Katness wants to fill every moment with doing something, and there's nothing wrong with that. But our respective kids really just want to hang out with each other, either at the pool or playing Minecraft.
It usually works out but I need to remind myself the next time we are getting together to factor that in to the equation.
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