The Last Hurrah
Labor Day Weekend. The end of summer for the kids, who go back to school on Tuesday. We went to a party yesterday, they spent most of their time in the host's pool. Today Emmeline goes over to her friend Vicki's house for one last sleepover before the school year starts, and James is running around enjoying the picture-perfect weather. Bob is stuck in his room, writing "story maps" for books he's read over the summer -- work that his mother has warned him he's had due for the first week of school since summer vacation started in June, but in typical fashion, he's procrastinated, and now he's suffering for it.