Summer progress

High school has been of out for one week today. Maddi doesn't track off until the end of June and then she has five glorious weeks of school off.

Summer is here. The windows are open and the familiar sights, sounds and smells of summer abound. There is the coconutty smell of suntan lotion on my skin and my kids; the consistent humming, buzzing sound of a lawn mower engine mowing a lawn somewhere in my neighborhood. The robin has returned once again to the tree outside my bedroom window reestablishing her summertime wake-up call. Ahhh, summer. I love it! Corn on the cob, fresh garden vegetables, watermelon, grilled meats, lime-ricki's . . .


Doesn't it just make you happy thinking about it all? Soon, every other load of laundry includes colorful pool towels and our skin's thirst for lotion is replaced with a need for the soothing, medicinal properties of aloe vera.

Camping, family reunions, fourth of july parades, s'mores, trips to the lake . . .

Life, slower.

Ahhhhh, summer.