Solstace

• Summer is finally here- yesturday we celebrated the last day of Spring- and today we are celebrating the first full day of Summer
• Lots of colorful crey paper is up and paper balls and twinkle lights and chalk drawings....
• Lots of good food filling the fridge
• Lots of sun... lots of rain... a little hail... all in a summers day....
• Little one is napping- Thank goodness- oh she was the crabbiest.
• The boys are off at a Boy Scout Day Camp- again Thank goodness- gets them out of my hair
• I have a cool diet mountain dew on hand- thanks to my new refridgerator. Cold food- who knew.
• So much laundry to do- I really do not know where it all came from.
• Flip Flops- I used to hate flip flops but have aquired an appreciation for the classic low key summer assessory!
• Counting the days until we hit the beach...
• Lazy kitties sleeping in open windows
• Cool summer sheets- (I feel the same way about warm flannel sheets in the fall/winter) but right now the bamboo sheets are my little bit of heaven at night.
• LOts of good books to read. So far I finished- A Song for Summer by Eva Ibbotson, The Painted Veil by Maugham, Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson, Who Murdered Chaucer by Terry Jones, et al (Just can't quit reading this stuff- borrowed the book from my Professor- Hoping he will lend me a few more), The Wasteland by TS Eliot....
• Knitting a pair of socks for my niece for Christmas- one sock done- one to go. Enjoying my carefree Thursday evenings knitting at my local yarn shop. My selfish 2 hours of fun - without the kids, without the hubby, without the TV, without interruption. Just crazy girl talk. And it is crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I get to drool over all the yarn on the shelves at the same time.

So far summer has been good. But the Summer solstice is always a little bittersweet for me- that's why I have turned it into a family celebration. I am always a little saddened by the fact that the days are getting shorter from here on out. It like Christmas- I love the month leading up to it- but when Christmas hits- I am always saddened that it is over.