Summer is here! And I feel so excited and ready for it this year. I love love love Austin, Texas. But, I am historically not as fond of the weather here. Year after year, in the heat of August, I question the sanity of enduring blazing day after blazing day, no matter how great everything else is. But something feels really different this year. I can't really put my finger on it. I think this might finally be the year that I accept and embrace the sweaty, sticky funk that will inevitably cover me from morning to night. (Staying clean all the time is exhausting and life is too damn short.) I think I also feel a bit of relief that we don't have to try and squeeze all of the fun in before school starts back up in August. There is an enormous sense of freedom in knowing that we can let summer keep going as long as we want to. So, here's to tomatoes from the garden, fresh juicy watermelon, baseball games, sunscreen, lightning bugs, popsicles, fireworks, staying in the pool all day...and deciding for ourselves when it will come to an end.
Happy Summer!
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