Reflecting on a Busy Season: Family, Friends, and Fun

Three years after retiring, I still look forward to the end of the school year. This week will be a busy one.

It’s the final hurrah for therapy dog activities this school year. We have the R.E.A.D.er awards ceremony at Park Street Elementary. Once the audience leaves, the four kids we’ve worked with will have brunch with Sadie. They’ll enjoy CFA biscuits while her highness has chicken nuggets.

My niece’s high school graduation is Friday evening. My parents don’t drive at night, so I’ll be their chauffeur. They live an hour east of me. The graduation ceremony is an hour south of them. On a Friday. In Atlanta traffic. Oh joy.

It’s also my turn to host our monthly Book Club. Technically, it should be next week, but May’s calendar is such that stuff that normally happens on 3rd Thursday (book club) also happens to fall the same week as the 2nd Wednesday (library READ). Right now, I have RSVPs for 8 (could be up to 12).

Not much sewing or quilting happening this week. That’s okay. One week from now, we’ll be officially in summer mode. For the first time in five years, it’s shaping up to be a normal summer with a planned vacation, quilt retreat, Quilt Camp @ SQTM, quilt classes I’m taking, plus a couple of really special therapy dog events.

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