Summertime

I don't know. I feel like I am in a slump. I know I should be happy that it is summertime and my kids are home from school. I should be grateful that I get to sleep a little bit later in the mornings. I should be excited that there are no pressures to get dressed in a timely manner or dress others either. That we get to lounge around in our jammies a bit longer. But, I'm just not.

My kids get bored easily and there isn't anything to do around here. Not to mention, it is WAY too hot to do anything anyways. I can't do laundry later than around lunch time because the dryer will heat up the house. I don't want to cook anything because it is too hot, and there is only so much you can do with a microwave. When the afternoon heat begins, I just get grumpier and don't feel like doing anything.

Maybe there is something wrong with me. Summer is just not as fun as it was when I was a kid. There isn't any excitement in it anymore. I grew up in Colorado. I could actually go outside and play at any hour of the day and not get heat exhaustion. I would ride my bike all over the city I lived in with my best friend. We would go to the store or visit other friends. There was always something to do, and it was very rarely too hot to go outside. And, if there ever happened to be a day that was just too hot, we would take a drive up into the mountains and it would be at least ten degrees cooler there.

I am probably just homesick for my friends in Texas. Our kids would play together inside on hot afternoons, and we would talk and hang out. I don't have any friends like that in Oklahoma. The people here are just not as friendly. Don't get me wrong, they are nice and all, but they just aren't as social. The problem is definitely mine, because I am just not an outgoing person. It is hard for me to make friends, and when I get lonely, I just close up. I need to put myself more out there for people to befriend me, but I really cannot see that happening, because stepping out of my comfort zone terrifies me.

Well, enough of my ranting and anti-summer talk. There is less than a month to go, and we have a bunch of movies in out Netflix queue.