Click here and listen to the song "Chinup." Then think about summer. Summer when you were in maybe 5th or 6th grade. The age when you're independent enough to ride your bike to your friend's house but young enough to not be bothered by the opposite sex. Summer was all about hanging out with just the girls. Or just the boys. Having sleepovers that lasted an entire week. Or an entire month, moving from house to house like transients. But LOVING every second of it. Being outside as much as humanly possible, dreaming big, laughing at EVERYTHING. Finding adventure in the backyard or even more adventure in the neighbor's backyard. Spending all day at the beach and then falling asleep with sand in your ears. Popsicles, running through sprinklers and selling lemonade. Coming inside only to eat lunch. Getting sunburned, and then tan. Swimming for hours. Laughing for hours. Bug hunting. Sleeping outside on the trampoline. Soaking up the sun.
Here's to summer. And not the working summer where you get a couple extra Fridays off. Here's to summer where you did nothing because you have to and everything because you want to.
3 comments:
LOVED. THIS.
You were always such a summer girl and still are. That photo is worth a thousand words. Those were the days. Miss you.
i love love love that post. the picture is perfection and tells your summer story perfectly, and as i read what you wrote, i totally longed for those days. then, i got really excited because i realized that in so many ways i get to live them all over again with my kids. oh how i love summer. if it were up to me, it would be summer all year long. love you!
What a great post! I love summer & you captured it perfectly. :)
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