Ahhh Summer air? Do you feel it? Do you smell it? I woke up this morning, the sun was shining, the birds were chirping, ladies still sleeping........so I slipped outside to the back deck. I sat there bundled in my blanket to shield the warm morning breeze. What a beautiful morning! I was so content just sitting there, watching the birds, sipping my toffee flavored coffee with coconut creamer..mmmmm, enjoying my new pots and flowers, these are the days I cherish so greatly. What is it about summer that makes you feel rejuvenated? The bright colors of green leaves, and yellow flowers? The smell of fresh cut grass? The presence of care free children getting to enjoy life without the structure of school? It is magical!
Summers were special for me as a kid. My mom was home. She made sure to make them memorable. She took me, along with the whole neighborhood, on adventures. She forced me outside to get dirty! She cooked 3 meals a day. Ahhh summer as a kid! I want to make those memories for my children. I want them to remember me as the mom who went on nature walks, canon balled in the pool, and got dirty with them! Summer for me, as a mom of school girls, is magical. It is a short few months, where I don't have to send my babies away for long days. They get to stay up late with me cuddled on the couch, and sneak in my bed for long mornings. Summer is up north trips, shriveled fingers from the pool, and the smell of sunscreen. It is long boat rides, sun hats, parks and dirty faces. Ahhh Summer!
This memorial weekend, was the kick off to making our summer special. The beginning to making summer memories. We went to Morely, MI to our family property on the Little Muskegon river. Speaking of summer memories, I have so many from " the river" . A childhood full of camping with family and friends, outhouses, leaches, crawdads, tubing,bug spray, smores, canoeing, and campfires, and hopefully my kids remember the same! It was a short weekend for us, but relaxing. We sat by the river as the girls ran around. We put our feet in the icy cold water. We played scrabble, and I won. ( you didn't think I wasn't going to mention I won?? I mean Dude, I kicked some scrabble butt!) We made memories!We cut our weekend early on Monday to race home to open our pool! I have always wanted a pool! My mom always wanted a pool, but our yard growing up had too many trees. OH man, I wanted a pool as a kid, and so what do you do as an adult when you didn't get something as a kid, you make up for it with your own kids! SOOO, we got a pool:) Last year the pool was a big hassle! Cutting down a tree for it to fit, digging the dirt out,setting it up, getting water delivered, buying a cover, building a deck. Although, I am aware that it will still be a lot of work, I am looking forward to being able to simply enjoy it this year. Yup, a girls got plans to float for 3 months straight, with nothing but a diet coke in hand! AHHHH Summer!!! ( by the way this AHH is like after you just take a drink from a cold can of pop on a hot day, not the ahhhh the kids have no clean socks and the bus will be here in 5 min. kinda AHHH, just to clarify)
What will you do with your summer to make it memorable?
I plan on.........
Trips to the park
Splashing in the pool
Catching lighting bugs
Going up north
Having bonfiresSitting on the deck with my morning coffee
Swimming in the dark
Cooking on the grill
Going to Cross Roads village
Staying up late
Walking barefoot
Making french toast
Having a sun kissed nose
Meeting other moms for summer play dates
Going to the movies on a rainy day
Going on family bike rides
Fishing with Dad
BUT most of all, I plan on enjoying my girls for the few months, I have them fully!
Yes, summer is short, all good things must come to an end, but because of that, I am going to make it as memorable as possible!
AHHHH SUMMER!!!!
Oh, and off the subject, but I thought kinda funny, Kadence just brought me the bug spray and said" Mamma, I need this, I'm stinky!" Poor kid thought it was perfume all weekend, and I had been dousing her in it cause she stinks! She probably wasn't too far off! Kids got some Stanky FEET!
your summer sounds absolutely delightful! :) wish we lived closer. the boys and i just might mosey on over this summer for a dip in your pool. (if i get brave enough for you to see my beached whale body lol)
ReplyDeletei remember the camp outs at the river, the leaches, tubing down the river (thats my fondest memory - huge groups of people floating down the river). i remember getting dirty (shocker! yes, me - dirty! haha), i remember scary stories your mom would tell us in the pop up camper with a pair of hose on her head for a scary effect (lol), i remember singing kids songs, cook outs, taking long trips in your van with the bed in the back - we'd walk and lay all over that van - seatbelts? what were those?!
and about the scrabble game - were you keeping score? is that how you won?