I awoke yesterday feeling a bit tired, overwhelmed and ready for a vacation from my vocation. When did May become a second December ? What I mean is that with three boys in school, May becomes a blur of end-of-the year parties, field trips, birthday parties, teacher gifts, graduations and awards ceremonies. On top of that comes registration for summer sports or camps, tryouts for fall sports and loads of battered school supplies being dumped just inside the entrance to the house. And I love all of it ~truly I do~ but somehow I just wish it could be spaced out a bit more rather than crammed into the last two weeks of May. I think part of my worn out feeling is that we have planned a summer getaway for an entire month. The packing, planning and organizing the van for this three-day drive has been exciting and a great challenge to my list-making skills. Then last night, at our older two boys' final track meet, my husband arrived, looking weary himself and gently wonde