Love Letter to Summer Days

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Yes, this is basically how amazing I hope to look come summer. Can’t get here soon enough.

As I sit here, feeling my feet turn into veritable ice blocks in this precious January chill that our heat system can’t keep up with, I find myself longer for warmer days.  Brighter days.  Summer days.  Oh my lost love of sunshine and warmth, where did you go?  More importantly, how quickly can you find your way back here?

Yes, let me now un-closet myself as counting down to Memorial Day kind of gal (it’s officially 122 in case you want to start keeping track).  Not that I don’t love adding the extra 15+ minutes to our morning routine while I battle with coats, hats and locate missing mittens, but somehow the ease of summertime is just seeming overly appealing.  Throw in the fact that I will be able to table the preschool drop-off routine for almost another 4 months, and I am longing for May.

My passion for the summer months was completely solidified the other night when I was attacked by the Little Tikes basketball net subbing in as a drying rack for the winter.  I appreciate this plastic montrosity doing it’s part to give our dryer a rest and cut back on our heating bills, but I’m pretty sure it secretly daily inches itself further into my walking path through the dark basement.  Come summer, when all outside play items are restored to their appropriate habitats, I envision less such evening attacks.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for appreciating the sweet parts of this season–fires in the fireplace, hot chocolate, and playing in the snow with the kids (but really, does this have to be so cold and so wet?  Snow play would be so much more enjoyable if it was just a tad drier and warmer), but my heart lies with June, July, and August.

Only 122 days?  I’m sure we’ll be rocking the mom-friendly shapewear bathing suits before we know it, dear readers.  Hang in there.

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Meredith

Meredith blogs at The Mom of the Year, where she dedicatedly earns her title one epic parenting fail at a time, offering quick, relatable laughs for fellow parents and all their empathizers. She has been part of several best-selling anthologies, featured on prominent sites such as Huffington Post, In the Powder Room and BlogHer, and loves her role as the Executive VP/Operations Manager of The BlogU Conference. When she's not breaking up fights over Legos and juice boxes, she remains fully committed to sharing a less serious look at the world of parenting.

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