My Dearest Summer,
I’ll be honest, love, I thought about not writing you. You are busy saying goodbye to your fans, and who else really cares about how we spent our last three months, anyway? But then I remembered that sometimes it really isn’t about anyone else. It’s just about you and me, and we had a pretty magnificent affair this season. I would be remiss not to send a thank you (my mother would have found it rude), and after all, what is any decent fling without a passionate love letter to record it for future memory?
To start, you were in your finest form, spookily on your game. Very little brutal, slaying heat, and only a few adorable rain showers thrown in for variety. In fact, I may have longed for a good raging hot day to irrationally blame some excess irritability on, but you gave me no room. You were too busy filling our evenings with perfect lightening bug-catching temps and blowing gentle breezes across the moments we played in the sun.
…and this. Minor obsession with fresh farmer’s market flowers here…
While winter selfishly incapacitates us and dominates our hours with obscenely long grocery store lines for bread and milk, you shine your sunny glow upon us and send us off to play. Under your reign, while our skin chicly bronzed (albeit under safe UV-protection, of course), we hit amusements parks, frolicked endlessly in the pool, fell in love with Daniel Tiger, vacationed with family, and snuck in countless hours swinging on swings and sliding on sliding boards. There were too-fun birthday parties, grilling galore, and visits with friends more precious than words can capture.
Truth told, we were all exhausted all the time. But who doesn’t know that comfy pillows and crisp sheets are really made for summertime? Sweet exhaustion is, after all, sweet, most especially when done with the windows open and the fresh night air filling the house.
There is some powering magic to your sunshine. It allows Mommy to do things like tackle massive body challenges, host an author afternoon at the library, and be part of the most awe-inspiring blog conference ever. There was also the less significant, but equally scary, day she decided to make homemade tomato sauce, but miraculously did not burn the house down. Victory!
…and this. I don’t have words for this one…
And then she got this blog thing trademarked and for a day, became her own hero. Told you Summer, your power is magic.
In the months of your fabulousness, husbands psychotically foster bee-keeping hobbies, build gorgeous fountains, and make mad progress remodeling basements. Children grow inches, teach themselves to use the potty, and get on the school bus for the first time. Yes, Mommy is still a bit sobby about that one.
You have packed our days and filled our hours. Through you we have grown, flown, and delighted to our hearts content. So maybe part of those alleged bus-stop tears are due to the fact that you are leaving me.
I love you, anyway.
So stash this note in your memory box in the back of the closet. Dig it out in the lonely cold months to come if you long for a sunny smile, but don’t mourn too long or hard for our lost days. I have a feeling you and I run pretty deep–and we’ve got loads more of these hot hot weather flings in the years to come. To the future, my love.
I’ll be hibernating and busy being a slug until we meet again. xo…
…and this. I know.
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Janine Huldie says
Aww, seriously how did summer go this quickly this year. I feel like it barely got started and now it is unofficially over with Labor Day today. Hoping the winter doesn’t come too quicky now and isn’t too brutal for us all either now.
Meredith says
Amen! From your lips to God’s ears, Janine!
Kathy Radigan says
Love your letter to summer! I have mixed feelings, I’m sorry to see it go, but I’m also ready to start “real life” again. Congratulations on your trademark. So exciting!!! xo
Meredith says
I get this too, Kathy–routine is a good thing for us and it will be nice to fall back into one!
Frugalistablog says
You really rocked this summer! And it all began with Blog U. Summer 2015 will be just as bitchin’!
Meredith says
Here’s to 2015, Frugie!
Courtney says
This is the most beautiful ode to summer I have ever read. I love the part about the perfect firefly catching temps. Oh, that’s my favorite temperature. I’m glad you had a wonderful summer and maybe, just maybe, in a few months, you’ll write an equally happy one to winter…I a girl can dream
Meredith says
Exactly 🙂 And that’s a perfect dream to have, Courtney!
Stacey @nursemommylaughs says
I can understand how it would be hard to say goodbye. But with every goodbye, a hello follows! Hello, Gorgeous.
Meredith says
GREAT perspective, Stacey. To the hellos 😉
Kenya G. Johnson says
Love your letter to summer though I don’t share the same sentiments. Today was a heat index of 102 – soooo not my favorite season. Maybe I’ll write a letter to winter at the end of February, after my “winter” of frolicking. I’m coming out of hibernation now – even though it was super dooper hot today, I know that next month we will get some relief. I know that is so hard to believe if your live in a brutal winter climate. I promise I don’t want to trade though I do whine about it a lot.
Meredith says
That is SO hot, Kendra! Go get your season of relief–and enjoy!
Cynthia Gabriele Sprouts Consignment Boutique says
Cute but, wish there could be a few more days of just relaxing! Indeed, where did summer go this year?
Meredith says
Too fast…always too fast!
Chris Carter says
Ah summer… so sad to say goodbye!! Lovely letter Meredith!! Tuck it away, and bring it out for all of us to see in a few months. We’ll long for it over and over again!
Meredith says
Now that’s a fun idea, Chris–will be fun to remember this shot of sunny when it’s not so sunny outside! xo
femmefrugality says
Sounds like such an amazing, productive summer! How did you manage to get all that done while I accomplished virtually nothing? If this winter sucks again I’m seriously considering a move to sunnier climates. And by seriously I mean it would never happen, but a girl can dream (and pray to somehow coerce her husband.)
Meredith says
Babe, so “seriously considering” the move to sunnier climates with you!
Ashton says
I love this! You didn’t waste any time this summer! No wonder it went by so quickly!
I start saying goodbye to summer around this time, excited for a new fling with fall…but inLas Vegas, summer just keeps lingering. I’ll be jealous when you get to pull out your boots!
Meredith says
But see, this just gives you more “summertime” to be fabulous–you can spread it out over the whole year, Ashton 😉