Well another summer is coming to an end!
I have to be honest ......I am not crying or fighting it !!
The summer has been beautiful !! In every sense of the word.
The weather has been awesome! I don't think there has been one fun thing canceled due to yucky weather! We've had beach days, park days, bike rides, picnics ..clam cake and chowder nights....plenty of ice-cream!! Along with countless afternoons at Nana&Papa's pool!! We are officially hot-dog and hamburgered out!! I realized that the other night when I had to practically beg my family to eat them...and then had left overs for lunch!
We have had weekends away with friends. weekends away with family! A fun filled week to beautiful Indiana where we stayed with family and are already counting the days when we can return!! We visited the Creation Museum in Kentucky! Driving through states we had never traveled before...taking in the beauty of this great country!!
I have enjoyed the slower pace. The lazy mornings ....with coffee and a good book! Time to do things that schedules don't allow for. I have savored the time with my kids just being mom...not mom with an agenda!! I have loved late nights with my honey ....knowing I could sleep in !! He is a good sport cause he still had to be up at the crack of dawn!!
We have celebrated our 14th anniversary .......the birthday of our first teenager......and my 38th bday!! We are never short on excuses to party here!!
Now the fun is wrapping up..... I know hard work is ahead. Keeping everyone on schedule, keeping myself on schedule, that is truly the challenge !! Making sure that books are being read, math is getting done.......supper is getting cooked because we need to get "here" or "there". Knowing that I may be able to squeak in a lazy morning with my coffee and book........ but our meetings will be infrequent!
I know in about a month I will feel stressed and look back at summer with longing in my heart ........and the counting will begin! How many weeks till winter vacation....spring break..... a long weekend.....isn't summer vacation around the corner ?
But for now "I say bring it on!!" I am ready....my mind is back in schedule mode...and unless its on my list it ain't happening!! I get a little rigid at the beginning :-) I admit it! It's just how I adjust !! But I am breaking out the apple pie recipes ......dreaming of driving through the fall foliage.
See the truth is I really LOVE all the "seasons" of my life !! I am learning to look for all the blessings right where I am today !! Whether I am by the ocean watching my kids romp in the waves.....or helping my 13 year old master a math concept...watching the first snow.........or the anticipation of the first spring flower!
To me it all speaks of a magnificent God who created all the seasons and a time for all things in those seasons!!
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