Last week, I was in Ohio at the Lori Foster Reader/Author Get Together (blog wrapup forthcoming… I have video…) and I have finals due this week so I’ve been a bit lax in getting the wrap up blog post up. It will be sometime this week though… I promise. But today, I’m going to talk about summer.

Summer sucks. There, I said it. I hate summer. It’s not so much the heat that gets me. I’ve lived in Texas for half my life at this point. It’s the fact that my kids are out of school and I still have to work.

So, here’s five reasons why my life sucks in the summer.

1. I still have school.

My kids are out of school, but I’m not. I’m rushing to finish school so I’ve been going during the summer too. So, homework and writing and kids and all kinds of things are still out there.

2. My kids DON’T have school.

Seriously, if you had asked me when I was sixteen, if year round school was a good idea, I’d have told you no. In fact, I wrote a whole persuasive paper on why it was a crappy idea. Now? I would love year-round school for my boys.

3. It’s freaking hot.

I live in Texas, so summers here are blistering. We go from our weird wintery weather straight to 100 degree days. Last year, we had over seventy days of weather over 100 degrees. Normally, heat doesn’t bother me too much, but even by that point, I was wishing for cooler weather.

4. My kids are home.

It’s not enough that my kids are out of school. But now they’re home all day. Now I love them. I truly do. But I really want to love them from a distance, so I can continue to love them. Having them home for nearly three months makes my head spin.

5. OMG THE AIRFARE.

Yeah. Family is stir-crazy. So, it is deemed that a vacation is necessary. Great! But have you SEEN the price of airfare and hotels in the summer? OMG. Trying to find a flight for under $700 to ANYWHERE is crazy-making.

All that said, I do enjoy some things about summer. Going outside to the pool, grilling food. I do love spending time like that with the boys. So, I will bitch all summer long about how much I hate summer and how much my life sucks, but it makes me happy to spend that time with my boys.

Now… if I could just get them off the computer…