It's starting to feel like...

Lovely photos from (clockwise): TheCulinaryGeek, Mait Jüriado,  Chase Cash, and Sean McGrath.

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On Wednesday the husband and I bought ice cream. We never buy ice cream but given the fact that it was a hard week, we thought we deserved it. And it's a good thing we did, too. My nephews came yesterday and stayed most of the day. They are both under age six so our activities included picking oranges, looking for bugs and talking about Star Wars and Legos. Later in the afternoon we walked over to the park that is practically across the street from our house. We played on the swings, built sand mountains and played soccer with the only ball we could find in the house -- a semi-flat basketball. It was really fun and the weather wasn't too bad. It's definitely starting to get really hot but it's still nice enough to play outside. We topped off the day with a few scoops of deliciously cold ice cream.
 

Photos from: presta, Nicki Varkevisser, Josh Liba and Courtney Carmody.

 
I think this feeling of summer is even more apparent as the husband doesn't have a new job yet (it's only been a few days of unemployment) and so he has been home and things feel a little off. I suppose he's on summer holiday now, sort of. He has still been writing though. He has a few freelance projects going now but it's not the same as going into an office 9-5. I wish we had saved more. One of our problems when we were planning trips this spring was that husband didn't have as much vacation time. If I had managed to save an extra few thousand husband and I would undoubtedly be in Paris right now. Or Georgia. Or Seattle. Or, really, probably not. Hahaha, I am a worrier when it comes to situations like this and I probably would have barred all extra expenses no matter how much money we had saved!
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Summer has such a free, undefined sense of adventure and possibilities. Or else restlessness. And in my case, usually a mix of both. I think I am very much still on school time and so summer always feels like a time of change for me. A time to rethink my life, hobbies, the way I spend my time, everything. Who knows, maybe this summer has a lot of exciting things in store for us! I really hope so. I can't wait to feel like I'm driving this boat again. I hope I get to go somewhere beautiful. And I hope you do too!

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