My mind is still trying to wrap around the idea that tomorrow is July 15th already…

I mean, where does the time go exactly? It is like the glorious days of summer get sucked into a giant vacuum of time…fleeting way too quickly for my taste. Father Time, it is okay to take a hiatus in the summer months…and then plunge into fast-forward when the dreadful winter months rear their ugly head.

My head is spinning with all that we have been doing this summer so far…uhhmmm…hence my very infrequent blogging this summer…please forgive me, my dear friends. I promise to be better in the fall when my girls return to school. We have been having alot of summer fun…old school style. Good ol’ fashioned childhood fun. Our days have been packed with swimming (can my kids’ hair be stripped any more from all of the chlorine?), playing with friends, riding bikes, day trips and the list goes on and on. I vowed at the beginning of summer to get us a little bit more back to the basics…and we have successfully done that, thank you very much. We have loved family moments of nighttime campfires in the backyard, roasting gooey s’mores, catching lightening bugs, playing “Ghost in the Graveyard” and watching the twinkling of the stars on a clear summer night. I have to say that we have really become much more in touch with nature over the past few weeks….and have witnessed some of God’s most beautiful creations…from ginormous orange full moons, the pink cascades of an evening sunset or the biggest, most impressive rainbow that I have EVER seen in my 36 years on this earth.

We have done science experiments to keep our minds fresh…planting pumpkin seeds to yield this year’s Jack-O-Lantern (hopefully…if our vines continue to grow as lovely as they have been), making homemade kites to learn about wind and movement patterns and even a little cooking/baking. This week, we are making “A Whopper Cake” for our grandma to celebrate Megan’s favorite summer read (The Whopper Cake by Karma Wilson and Will Hillenbrand…a must-have book if you have a young kidlet). The kids have made countless artwork projects over the past few weeks…and if I ever get around to it…I plan on framing some of the nicer masterpieces and plaster them on the naked walls leading to the basement.

Just posting about all of our adventures is making me sleepy….yawn.

Off to catch some ZZZZ’s folks….the sun will peek her eyes over the horizon, nudging us to start another day of adventures, before I know it.

Nighty-night. Until next time….sweet dreams.