The house is quiet - too quiet with the kids all back at
school. No one is fighting over the TV remote
or leaving snack wrappers strewn throughout the house after consuming an entire
bag of Goldfish. I can walk around
freely without fear of crunching down on a Lego Mini-figure or a naked Barbie. Don’t get me wrong. It’s nice to have time to write, to read, to
organize and to go food shopping without having to utter “No” repeatedly. But, as the excitement and anticipation of a
new school year and the promise of cooler days arrive all too soon, already I
am missing those lazy, crazy days of summer.
When I think of summer, it’s barefeet running through the dewy
grass or flip-flops skipping across hot sand before being kicked off at the
cool surf. It’s lazy from the oppressive
heat and humidity and crazy with activities designated only for the months of
June, July and August: day camps and mini golf and backyard pools and public
pools and baseball games and barbeques.
It’s traveling to destinations you’ve never been and returning to places
familiar with warm memories. It’s ice
cream melting down the side of a sugar cone, cotton candy sticking to your
fingers, caramel corn between your teeth and giggles of delight upon entering
your children’s favorite candy store.
It’s cannonball splashes and afternoon catnaps in the back of the car on
the way home. It’s loud firework blasts
and quiet blinks of lightning bug lights.
It’s a garden harvest and sunflowers in full bloom and too bright
sunshine and long, low rumbles of distant thunder. It’s bug bites and sunburn and sand in your
swimsuit. It’s cut-off shorts, favorite
t-shirts, movie star worthy sunglasses and floppy beach hats. It’s unscheduled and chaotic in a “What time
is it? Who knows? Who cares?” sort of way.
Yes, officially summer last three weeks into September and
we haven’t hit the unofficial end that is designated as Labor Day. Yet, with school starting back up and lunches
to be made and homework to be completed and organized activities filling up the
calendar, something has shifted. For now,
I’ll sift through the photos and smile at all the fun while forgetting all the
times things didn't go so well or quite as planned.
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| On top of Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, North Carolina |
And, I’ll dream about next year … when we can
do it all again.
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