We finally hit the salad days of summer over here. (Actually, I just looked up “salad days” and it would appear that isn’t exactly what I meant.) Maybe I should say, the sweetest days of summer?
The weather has finally come around to a solid 72-73 degrees and sunny. I am laying in the grass in the shade on a blanket with M reading right beside me, while L plays in the yard (taking occasional breaks to come sit on me or pepper me with questions or draft me into some imaginary play she is working on.)
Life is good.
I am thinking these will be the memories I think back on when my girls are all grown up and have moved out and I am missing them desperately (please, oh please, let them some day move out).
I imagine my future self will not remember that these sweet memories were preceded by a weekend where Mr. A was very sick and excessively crabby and not much help at all with the girls (which made ME quite crabby). Or that the children were driving me so crazy I voluntarily blacktopped the driveway so I could escape them. Or that L is frequently destroying my peaceful feelings by yelling nonsense words directly in my ear.
That is why memories are often better than reality.
But even with all the irritations of real life, these are the good times. I hope you are enjoying your summer as much as I am.
So glad you are enjoying the summer finally! You know, now that I have three especially, I try to think of things in terms of “will this be a nice memory by tomorrow? by next week? by next month?” and that helps me decide whether or not it is worth doing. So funny about the blacktopping–I very often volunteer to do yard work/snow shoveling, etc. to escape the children.
Too funny. I often feel like that – Amelia will do something so frustrating I want to scream and then I think about how much I’ll miss it when she is grown. It goes too fast, I’m glad you’re enjoying the moments..even if not every single one;)
For my family, Salad Days are the weeks when our CSA share consists of lettuce, spinach, collards, arugula, kale, with a few radishes and turnips thrown in. Salad: it’s what’s for dinner, and frequently lunch as well.
Enjoy **your** salad days!
Those are Fall and Spring days for us. It is settled into the high 90′s and low 100′s here.
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