Let the Countdown Begin...

We are less than one week away from our county's fall break this year, and everyone knows it.

It is now the time of year when the sandals and sundresses go away, light jackets are worn, students are more talkative than normal, and everyone is taking their last trip to Florida before next spring. It is such a wonderful time of the year with the leaves changing, having bonfires with friends, and going to a few more high school football games.

But for me, it is more than that...
There is something that happens to me every single year around this time, and that is...HOW MUCH I TRULY LOOK FORWARD TO FALL BREAK. Sure, Christmas, spring, and summer breaks are great. However, I feel like those are just nice breaks to have from life. Fall breaks are much NEEDED for me. I always start feeling exhausted and physically, emotionally, and mentally drained. I feel like I have very little left of me to keep giving people and putting into school and life in general. Right now, I am running off of a LACK of sleep and lots of sugar ;) My weekends are filled with football games, band competitions, and church. Now don't get me wrong, I love participating in each and every one of those activities, but they do keep me very busy. And right now in school, teachers are concerned with new benchmark tests and craming all the information they can down our throats, so we will be caught up when we return to school after fall break. So let's just say that this year more than ever, it is a much needed and looked-forward to break.

Therefore, with all this said, let the countdown to fall break begin...