Simply Summer

Late nights, warm days, yummy ice cream, crashing waves, sleepy mornings = summer! I am impressed that July is almost over. Impressed in a good way you ask? NO WAY! I want to continue to soak up each day. I try and try to remember the past but a memory is not something I have been blessed with. Which makes me do my best to try to cherish the moment. I love that as I am putting my thoughts in order here, I am hearing lots and I do mean lots, of giggles coming from my boys. They have time to be bored during the summer. Which leads them to coming up with all kind of creative activities. The last two days have been spent searching in every whole for lizard eggs. Yesterday, Chase handed one to a neighborhood buddy and a baby lizard jumped right out of his cozy shell. If only I could find a way to type the excitement that was shed here in my yard. I am certain my house doesn't get those kinds of cheer on Christmas morning and I am fairly certain the home of the other kids don't hear those cheers either, on that day we try to purchase joy. I pray these memories will be forever embedded in the hearts and minds of each one of these kids. My bonus baby is preparing for C-O-L-L-E-G-E! What?!! Man if only I could be a fly on the wall of her dorm room. I can see it now . . . dirty oh and probably clean clothes every where; giggles late in the night; love stories unfolding; on your knees prayer; snorting (if you know my Tay then you know what this means); studying; snacks; and probably, well hopefully, more studying. She is flying on a jet plane (are you signing it with me) - to Guatemala in just a couple, short weeks. This will be her second missions trip there. ~ I ponder where her mission field will be? Will she be called to a third world country or will her family, you know her own branch of our tree, be her mission field? Time will only tell. I am going to continue to soak up every minute I can have with these precious gifts I have been given - all three of them. Shame on me for the days, the times, the minutes that I have taken my calling as their mommy for granted. I want to continue to pour my love out to the greatest love of my life, my husband. The last days of my summer need to be spent showering each individual in my family with my total heart. That will result in sleepy mornings because I will be up late watching movies with the kiddos. I will consume the warm days on the gorgeous ocean absorbing the sounds of the waves. I will snag the opportunity to find the change when we hear the music of the ice cream truck in the neighborhood = I will simply enjoy the rest of my summer!