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Don’t forget to live, today
Is that a trick question? Of course, I’m living. I’m alive for goodness sake! Yeah, yeah.
As I woke up this morning my mind was racing to next week when school starts for the new year and first term. Did we get everything, the school uniform, the textbooks, the stationery? I am already thinking ahead that one of my boys will tell me, Mommy, you forgot!
I am trying to enjoy the last peaceful weekend before the busy basketball season starts, when there will be practice 3 times a week and games every Saturday. You see the basketball season is so short (that’s what the coaches will tell us). But after basketball, there’s rugby or hockey (you choose), then soccer (optional) then basketball again during the last term of school.
In between all the sports you hope they learn something. Just before exams, you have to sign up for extra maths lessons, and extra French lessons and you just hope it won’t be English as well. These are 13 and 15-year-olds, somebody needs to drive them to all these lessons and sports activities.
Never mind that you have a full-time job. And maybe this year you really want to get your part-time writing off the ground. A hint to please read, clap and comment as many stories as you can. The $1.18 you made on your last story will not replace your…