No. 90: Summer Sundays: The 7 Kids Things Saving the Summer

Peak small joys

We can practically taste July at this point and for those of us in the South, this means we’re officially a couple months into our Summer. The heat index will reach 110 this week, we’ll make American flags out of berries and cream, I might dip my toe into some Christmas in July action and before we know it, it’ll be time for orientations and school supply shopping. July is a sweet month with a fifty-fifty split of pure sweetness and then a sharp right turn to a state of awareness. Awareness of all that needs to be done for the upcoming academic year, awareness of all that hasn’t yet been done for this Summer. This is always rolling around my mind so I’m doing my best to pause here in this moment in full presence. I’m so grateful for the adventures and mundane thus far and look forward to the adventure and mundane to come.

And now for my actual point a whole paragraph in: these are the sevens items or habits that have made this Summer—the Summer where we spread a gargantuan move out over a month, hosted or family visiting from Canada, road tripped to the Beach and played in a new basketball league—infinitely better. This list is a bit all over the place but the thread tying them together is that they’re irreplacable.

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