It’s been a while, I know.
I haven’t opened my lap top in two weeks, and I haven’t popped into the blog in probably 4-5, I’m not even sure.
I haven’t looked at my Beachbody back office. I haven’t thought about my business or post ideas. I haven’t engaged much on social media besides just popping in to publish a quick post, then I’m out. I’ve detached a bit mentally, and I’m ok with it.
Life lately has been sun and pool and travel and my kids and all the baseball and summer workout schedules and batting practice and the boys workouts and a handful of lazy days sprinkled in. It’s been grilling out and replacing all of our floors and Disney and camp and a nearly two-week trip to visit family and hit the beach and all. the. wet. towels. My laundry room has seen better days.
That’s a quick run down of life lately. I typically find myself in a bit of a checked out state during the Summer. Not necessarily checked out at home, but rather a bit more engaged at home and checked out from other things. I love the ease of Summer, the flow of a different kind of schedule and some days with no schedule at all. I love the longer days and laid back evenings and even though we have a lot more activity than we ever have before (boys play ball through half the Summer plus off-season training and prep for Fall athletics for Jake ), we’re still loving the feels of Summer.
The school year is nuts. Like, some days I think, “is this really worth it? Maybe I should just home school everyone or move to the mountains or to a big farm and slow the heck down.” Then reality hits and I remember I am not the home school type of mom(hello, they would learn nothing and I would probably just bake all day and let them swim and lose all sense of responsibility) nor did I marry a farmer and oh hey, we have no mountains near by ha! My point is, in the crazy of life with growing kids and school and sports and such, the Summer is a breath of fresh air, even if it does involve some of the school year things like baseball.
I remember when the kids were little and I had one in school and one toddler and a baby, Summer was a bit of a bear. Finding things to do where everyone was happy was hard. One still napped and needed swimmy diapers while another was pretty independent. These days are different. For now(and I’m certain this won’t last as Jake turns into a teenager and hates all the things) everyone can easily be entertained in the water. They can all go out to eat at an actual restaurant and have conversations with us, eat some cool new food they’ve never tried(our attempt at getting our kids a bit more cultured was bribing them to eat new things on vacation with ice cream. I mean whatever gets the job done. They both ate calamari and tuna……this is a big deal in our house). It’s just nice. Our season right now is nice. And I’m sort of feeling all sad and sappy knowing the days of our kids being young and happy with the simple things of Summer are limited. Wamp wamp. Sorry to be such a downer, but it’s true!! They grow too dang fast ya’ll and I’m all slow down time and please don’t go to college or grow real man hair on your arm pits. Just stay small. Twirl around and play dress up and have sword fights in the pool. Ok. Tears. Moving on from this depressing topic.
Summer has flown by, like literally it’s going so fast, and I’m itching to take another trip already. And we’ve only been home for a few days, and I LOVE home…what is wrong with me?! I tend to be a bit of a restless person. I love to travel and explore and see new things, or even old things that I hold dear because they are familiar, yet out of our norm, like our annual Florida trip. It’s nothing I haven’t seen a million times since I was 7, and yet going on that trip is like a bit of new life. It’s invigorating to go somewhere different, to get a new view and a fresh perspective. To actually spend time with my favorite people on the planet and laugh together and fight a bit(it’s ok, it’s healthy, and it helped us fit in with absolutely every other family and couple on the beach, all fighting at one point or another over who should pack the cooler or who will take the baby back for his nap or what have you, everyone fights a little on the beach right? ha!). Even though we can Clark Griswald some moments, we still love vacation and time together.
We’re pretty settled in for the rest of the Summer. Rob is taking Josh to Boston for a few days at the end of this month for his 10th birthday in the Fall. Jake had his world series tournament this week so we spent Sunday through Thursday on the other side of town melting and cheering him on. We have 3 whole weeks off! Other than that it’s pool days and a few possible painting projects, because I’m officially crazy and wait until Summer when all the kids are at home to get crafty. It’s ridiculous. No one should decide to paint cabinets IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SUMMER. It’s just not smart, and might just drive me to madness, and yet here I am, ordering my Annie Sloan and actually thinking this will be a good thing to pass the time, as if I have nothing else to do.
I hope you’re having an amazingly unplugged summer. I left my phone in the house most days at the beach, kept it on silent and only checked in once or twice a day. Today on the other hand, I’ve caught myself scrolling pointlessly and waisting time getting stuck down the rabbit hole that can be IG and FB. While there is so much good, I also have to keep myself in check. I don’t always need to see what everyone else is doing, especially when I have a life happening right in front of my eyes. Aren’t we all guilty of this? So much good can come from it, but it can also be a bit toxic at times.
So, I’m doing my best to keep it in check as the easier days make it pretty feasable to sit and scroll. Anyway, that’s just a totally pointless side note, but maybe it encourages you. Engage with your kids. Talk to them and enjoy having them around. When we wake tomorrow they will be in college, and lugging all that crap to the beach and loading the car to the point of explosion for family trips will be something we miss, I promise you that. So let’s soak up the Summer and soak up our people and detach a bit. Go ahead and own it. Own your crazy and own your people and own your moments, because you only get them once. xoxo
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