Mini Va-cay and Back to School

I can't believe school is starting Wednesday. I'll never figure out this philosophy here in the deep south. "They" maintain that school needs to be over in late May, because it's "getting too hot." Of course, this means that school must resume in August. Apparently "they" have not figured out that it is waaaaay hotter in August than in May. Or that the schools have air conditioning [despite the public perception fueled by movies depicting the south as inadequately cooled only by lazily turning ceiling fans. But I digress.] When I was growing up, way back in the Paleolithic Age, school let out in June, and resumed after Labor Day, which still seems to me a much better way to do things.

So the familia decided to have a small break before school starts. We went to Nashville for a long weekend and took the kids here, which they really enjoyed. We also went to rubberneck and say "Goll-ee!" at the Opryland hotel, since we couldn't afford to rent a room there even by the hour. As it was a sales tax holiday weekend, we also did a little shopping. It was so nice to have a choice of several malls to shop at, and to visit some of the stores I usually can only access online. And we ate some yummy ribs--the dry rub ones are the best.

So now I have to listen to Beaker whine, "I don't want to go back to school!" every five minutes between now and Wednesday morning. Of course, this is the same kid who cried every day for a week because he missed school when it ended. The one who, after the last day of school and while having a friend over, began studying his math workbooks earnestly, "Because I have to get ready for the second grade, Mom!" At least two of his friends are in the same class this year, so he'll start out knowing someone. It's so hard for him when his routine changes.

So yeah, I was a total sloth and did not knit anything while we were gone. I read and zoned out staring at the TV and slept. I really need to take a pic of my FO (Finished Objects) for the year--all two of them, wow--and post. Maybe I'll actually get that done this week, in my "spare" time.