Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for June 20, 2016

would you prefer summer school instead, Gracie?

Doesn’t Gracie have a library card? Problem solved.

The utter boredom isn’t supposed to set in for another few weeks.

Not a waste of time at all! Having nothing to do can stoke creativity and imagination.

Just like you, Gracie! XD

Sorry to hear that Gracie.

And as you get older, the waist of time tends to increase.

I agree. I used to hate summer vacation. Mom would come up with ideas and take us to beach. School was so much better, I loved school.

In the summer the big thing for me was the summer reading program at the library. I would read a couple of books a day (yes, a couple of books a day) and return in a week for my reward from the program I had signed up for. The idea was to encourage children to read over the summer and I would complete it in a week. They would not believe me. Then there was the book assortment problem. They would be upset as I had not read any fiction books, only non-fiction and I would argue, err, point out to them that non-fiction was much better than fiction as one learns from it.. Yes, another of life’s disappointments – the school summer reading program.

Hit send too quickly – around here school doesn’t end until the end of June. They are still not finished with the state Regents exams – required in high school, let alone school finals.