Savoring Summer

Pumpkin-everything is on the shelves at the grocery stores, and mums are in full bloom at the local garden store. Technically it's still summer, though, and we're savoring every last moment of it! Fully stocked with pizzas, sparklers, glow-in-the-dark jewelry, and sidewalk chalk, we celebrated the last days of summer with hide-and-go-seek, a game of chase, backyard ziplining, bicycle rides, and gathering with neighbors and friends.  We will be welcoming autumn soon enough, but for now, we savor the warm evenings, the late sunsets, the smell of freshly mowed grass, and the feel of it underneath our bare feet, shorts, tank tops, flip flops, late budding roses, bicycles on the curbs, and giggles of children in the yards that line our street. Months from now in the dead of bitter winter, we will wish impatiently for warmer weather, for a night such as this. So for now we savor it while it is here. Everything in its time, I say.  Here's to one last sweet, but simple summer hoorah.

After running, chasing, singing, laughing, sidewalk drawing, glowing-in-the-dark, pizza, and sparklers, the boys all went home, and a few of Courtie's friends stayed for a sleepover.

Fortunately for Mark and me, they didn't last too long, so the grownups were still able to get our beauty rest. We have a picnic today, a last summer farewell, and by this time Monday, I will stop by Common Grounds to get my pumpkin spice latte on. Until then, I am enjoying these last few days of summer. I'm not wishing it away, but savoring every last moment of this summer season.  I have decided the pumpkins and mums can wait for two more days. I promise.

xoxo, Erin