The changing seasons make me sentimental. I thought I was looking forward to school starting, but when it came right down to sending my girls, I wanted them back. And when the leaves started changing I thought, "Oh, wait! Hold on a little longer! I want to go to the beach one last time!"
This summer we soaked up being home. It was slow mornings, pool days with friends, evenings at the beach, trips to the library for reading prizes, grilling for every meal, town festivals, fires and s'mores, lightning bugs in the back yard, warm and sticky nights, and going to bed late because the sun likes to linger. It was lovely.
Now it is October. And though we loved our summer, I can relate to this poem:
"Pale amber sunlight falls across
the reddening October trees,
That hardly sway before a breeze
as soft as summer: Summer's loss
seems little, dear! On days like these."
"Let misty autumn be our part!
The twilight of the year is sweet:
Where shadow and the darkness meet
our love, a twilight of the heart
eludes a little time's deceit.
A little while and night shall come,
A little while, then, let us dream."
(Ernest Dowson)
Time to soak in another season.
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| First Day of School 2016 (Lainy 4th, Leah 1st) |
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