Summer

There are a few things I hate about summer, like our A/C bill and having to work (Miss you summer vacation, hope you're treating some other kid well these days!) but mostly I love it. I mean, I feel pretty damn lucky to have been born and raised in Florida. Nothing compares. The first official day of summer is still a couple weeks away but it's felt like summer since early May (usually earlier than that).

Summer to me is...flip flops (although this is an all year thing for Floridians), wet bathing suits strung across the shower curtain rod drip drip dripping in the bathtub, goggles, tank tops for days, that breath you take for good luck before plunging into icy spring water, short hair cuts, floats, the game of trying to eat your ice-cream cone before it melts all over your hand, the smell of coconut, being wrapped up in a beach towel, hot dogs drowning in ketchup, feeling the sand beneath your feet and the waves in your ears, vacation, sun glasses (my new found love!), fresh fruit, sunscreen with a serious high SPF, naps, fireworks, super poppy music, American flags, that first moment you walk into an air conditioned house after you've been outside sweating to death, running from that rogue bee that seems to find you every single year, brightly colored finger nail polish/lipstick, freshly squeezed lemonade, afternoon thunderstorms, cotton dresses, jumping into a pool, and so on...

Happy Summer. 

Go on an adventure.

 

 

 

 

 

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