Whoa there, my quick-to-accuse friend, I’m not late to the party. I know that lots of people were tossing around the R.E.M. (love that band) song last week on the popular social network known as bookface. And it’s true, here on the East Coast we did indeed have both an earthquake (that’s great it starts with an earth-quake…) and a hurricane (eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn…)
It’s the last night of summer for our children. School starts tomorrow, so it’s been a day of picking our clothes, mapping out bus schedules, coordinating shower schedules for the 5 who’ll be trying not to stink it up tomorrow at school. It’s not really the end of the world, but there are some changes for Team Sublett.
Most notably, Lilly is no longer a pre-teen. Yep, she’s crossed the threshold into those tumultuous teenage years. She has adopted the pattern of the ladies in our family by turning her birthday into a birth-week celebration. She started last week with a trip to NYC with Kim and Kim’s mom to see Wicked. Last night there were about 6 girls sleeping over. They were a fun bunch, but we finally had to shut things down about 3 am. Of course, Lilly’s first thought at midnight was to come find me to ask if she could create a facebook account. Why do they call it “getting a facebook?” Do they think that they own part of the system? At any rate, she’s 13, so the natural thing to do is join the social network. We celebrated Lil after supper with some cake and ice cream, and everyone got an opportunity to share something that we love about Lilly. It was a good night.
Another change for Team Sublett looms large: Sadie and Annabelle are headed to different classrooms, even different schools this year. ESL is only offered at the new elementary school, so Annabelle will be riding the yellow dog to the new school while Sadie finishes her journey at their old stomping grounds. There were some tears shed over this decision. It’s been important to us to have them in the same classroom, but we think Annabelle is ready to venture out on her own. And it’s only for this year. They’ll be re-united when they hit 6th grade.
I don’t know that we hit all of our goals for the summer. It went by so quickly. We didn’t get out into the woods and water as much as I’d hoped. But we had a great week at the beach, saw some family, and added Charlie to Team Sublett. We played some backyard badmitten, hung out with friends, and made some great memories. All in all, I’d call the summer a win.
Now let’s just hope that the school year gets off to a good start!
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