The Midway
Half way through summer The kids are an inch taller and several shades browner (or covered in freckles). The well-manicured fingernails and hairstyles have long since grown out. The brand-new summer clothes and swimsuits have faded from being dried in the sun many times. The kids are sun bleached, too. Their hair is lighter, their spirits are lighter. They are unencumbered, free! I love this part of summer. The mad rush to "fit it all in" has passed in the form of June. Picnics and water-parks, graduation parties, vacations and VBS - all the planning and packing and mass cooking is done. Now we enjoy what I think of as summer. Endless days to "do nothing." I think this is really what kids look forward to...and if not, it's what I look forward to ! A playdate here and there, a backyard swim party, popsicles on the porch, catching lightning bugs at night. Flip flops, bare feet, and drippy footprints in the house from swim-suite...