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So long, summer....

I get that blogging may be an outdated form of communication, but, frankly, I do it for me. I have missed it in the last year. It serves as a place to dump my thoughts, but it first requires me to organize them in a readable way. Some of my topics are boring, you have been warned.



Summer ends this week. Ok, so not "real summer" with a solstice and all but "functional" summer is coming to a close, meaning kids have to get back to school, meaning I have to get back to teaching said kids, since we homeschool.

I have a love-hate relationship with the end of summer. I love having rhythm to life, which is extremely lacking during the summer months, but I hate having the expectation of responsibility. I love learning new things, but I hate when I have to teach a completely disinterested kids a topic they refuse to engage with. I love fall, but I hate being cold. I love my kids having a chance to hang out with all the school friends (they do an enrichment program each week) but I hate having to be a place at a time with the things.



I will miss swimsuits and lazy days, library time and travel, grilling out and back yard happy hours. I will miss hanging with the family, swimming days at grandmas pool, Sonic runs, bike rides and playing music on the front porch. I will miss popsicles and stories, sprinklers and sidewalk chalk, hanging out with my kids and doing nothing.

I suppose all of the above doesn't quite have to end yet. We will have a couple weeks more, at least, of nice weather. We still have one more camping trip on the calendar. I know all good things must come to an end, if we "summered" all the time, it wouldn't feel nearly as special. I know I don't have a ton of summers left with all my kids at home (6 at most!) and closing this one out reminds me of how quickly time really moves.


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