I took the summer of to spend with my son. He is six years old and every summer I have put him into daycare and tried to work, all the while feeling guilty for not spending the summer with him. This summer I decided to do it differently. I choose to feel guilty about neglecting my business instead, and give the time to my son.

After all, this is the year he goes into first grade and I no longer have a choice of keeping him home with me instead of sending him to daycare, the way I did in the years past. Unless I want to home school. Which I might. But maybe not. I love him, but him and me 24/7 is not a good thing.

So he spent the summer with me and we played and swam and vacationed and got bored and learned new things. It has been fabulous. And long. And I have been very much looking forward to today - the first day of school.

But here it is. And I sit here missing him terribly, unable to get any work done. Am I the only one who couldn't wait to get the kid off to school and now can't get anything done because I am missing the kid? Let me hear from you if you feel the same heart-tug too.