Boredom. For those of you who don't know, ennui means boredom. And at the outset of summer who could possibly think boredom? I mean there are all these plans, there are so many things you have been waiting to do. Now that the kids are out of school and they have time and you have time, who could possibly be bored?. Well no one, actually. At least not yet.
The problem is, I know its coming. Right now, there are things for my kids to do and things for me to do. But as the summer grinds on, there are fewer and fewer things you want to do. This is simply how it has always been. What kid hasn't said "I'm bored" at least a dozen times in one summer? Not many.
Ah, but all is not lost. In fact, I took prepatory steps to mitigate the ennui of this season of heat and lethargy. Well actually, it wasn't really prepatory, it was more spontaneous. Okay, I really didn't think about it. I am a sucker and Blockbuster has my number!
You see, they have this $20/month plan to rent as many video games as you want as long as you only have one out at a time. You can even come back to the store and switch out games several times a day if you want. Knowing my kids like games, and I have been known to partake of mindless entertainment from time to time myself, I decided I would take this offer. I figure that at some point even that will get old. But for the duration it will keep them occupied during the times between vacations, movies, picnics, and youth group events. And maybe I can steal some time on one of the game consoles myself.
So knowing that in the past, I would tend to get quite bored during the summer, I decided that I was going to try and not allow that to happen this year. I will be finding things to do with the kids so that we can enjoy our time together as well as be not bored.
Wow. I am up to the teachability level of a monkey. I can be taught. It only took a long, long, time. Lesson learned. Now to finish out my plans and find more things to do this summer. This will be a much better summer.
2 comments:
If your family is suffering ennui (which is really more than just boredom) this early into the summer, you are surely doomed to a season of eternal headaches (there's not enough motion sickness drug in the world to allow me to play a summer's worth of video games).
That is the point. To prevent the arrival of summer boredom. Which so far has not happened. Just trying to prevent it. And yes ennui is more than just boredom, but when I searched Roget's thesaurus online for boredom, "ennui" popped up. Kind of like it popped up on Rita's refrigerator :-)
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