School's out and today marks the official start of summer this evening. For most families this is a time of transition . You may have exciting things planned for the summer like trips to far away places.
Or you may be planning a green vacation or eco friendly activities with your children.
What ever you have planned you may feel overwhelmed by this transition. You may feel like you will never be able to accomplish the things you need to do to get to that place where you can relax and enjoy all the wonderful experiences summertime has to offer you.
You look all around to find a way to get to the place you need to be but all directions look very difficult.
You just don't have enough energy to take that big step.
In chemistry the intermediary stage of a chemical reaction is called the transition state and sometimes it requires a lot of chemical energy to get to that state and it can be very slow and difficult. In chemistry to reduce the amount of energy required chemists make use of helpers like enzymes, cofactors and catalysts.
The helpers reduce the amount of energy required to get to the transition state.
The help you receive really makes all the difference and you are ready to embark/
Phew!!! That was so much easier with help. Break the "good mother myth" you don't have to do it all or do it all alone. With everyone pitching in to help just think of the places you can get to and the fun you can have. Happy summer!!!!
No snails were harmed in the photographing of these pictures. Did you know that snails are hermaphrodites having both male and female sexual organs. They still require another snail to mate. They have 4 tentacles, 2 longer eye stocks and the 2 shorter feeler tentacles. Some think of them as garden pests but I love them so much . They eat mostly dead organic matter of which there is always a lot of that in my garden and they always make me smile.
You've captured my transition state exactly. And my fantastic helper agent, Sarah, is working out so well--if I could just give up the guilt of not being there 24-7 with my kids, I would be a lot happier!
Posted by: Patricia | June 20, 2008 at 10:41 AM
This is one of the coolest posts I've read in a long time!
Molly
ps, love the starfish pics, especially the attack kitty
Posted by: Molly | June 20, 2008 at 10:53 AM
Two things:
1st- I learn so many things just be reading your post and I love how you incorporate it into everyday feelings and life. Your photo shoots are so inpiring.
2nd- Where did you get that train set from? We want one for my daughter but perfered if it didnt have Thomas the train splattered all over it!
Posted by: Stefanie | June 20, 2008 at 11:56 AM
You couldn't say it better Margie! This post talked directly to my heart. Bill and I are experiencing some hard days around this time with all the official process regarding Diego's transition to the school system in September. Right now I got a little mad about something stupid that someone wrote in a report about Diego. Everyday there is something new coming out to makes us worry. We have a big meeting on the 25th about Diego and we are so stressed out about it. We know that everything will be OK in the end but the process is hard, dealing with a system that is not great.
Anyway my friend, on the other hand we are trying to make nice plans for the summer. I will keep your post in mind and I will try to take it easy. Sometimes I just want to be a snail :)
But I am happy to be a Mom!
Elsita :)
Posted by: Elsita | June 21, 2008 at 01:27 AM
I love this post and I love your sence of humour!!!!!
I hope you and your kids are having a great, relaxing and cozy summer! I have NO plans for my vaccation...I take one day at the time and I´m so glad to be alive and a owner of a camera and a great portion of fantasy and humour! Oh, I hope my english is not to bad....perhaps I should work on that on my vaccation :)
Posted by: Clara | June 21, 2008 at 12:52 PM
An absolutely wonderful post Margie - great photos and really inspiring words (and I loved the soccer photos on Flickr too).
You teach me so much.
I wish you a glorious summer!
Posted by: bluemountainsmary | June 21, 2008 at 06:24 PM