It’s only April, but I know many of you have been planning summer for over a month now.  We’ve already been bombarded with barrage of information on summer camps, summer preschool sessions, and summer festivals and special events.  Squeeze in a vacation or two, trips to the pool, and visits from relatives, and things start to get overwhelming fast. This summer I’ve decided to stay as unscheduled as reasonably possible.  This is the last summer before Carina starts Kindergarten, and I want to spend it footloose and fancy-free, having fun and doing things we won’t be able to do once we have to start adhering to a school schedule.  That said, I know I will need a break from the rugrats at some point, and I’ve been working on a couple … Read entire article »