Summer

Maybe it's because the calender reads August. 

Maybe it's because my baby is going to be in full day Kindergarten and my oldest is going into Middle School.

Maybe it's because I feel time is at warp speed.

But I find myself scrambling to make every last minute of this summer last.  Cherish every last second with my babies.

Whether it is an afternoon at the pool while there is a kitchen full of dirty dishes.  Or snuggling with my boy on the coach while laundry in the dryer waits to be folded.  Or listen to my oldest ramble on and on about the latest and greatest video game when the floors are screaming sweep me.  I choose them.

I never count down the days until the 's' word starts.  I love to have my babies right under my wing.

  I come from a long line of mother hens.  I have warm memories of my Mama telling me over and over how much she loved spending time with me during summer vacation.  Well actually to this very day she reminds me how much she misses me, loves me and wishes we could be together.

So I choose to cherish every last moment until it's time to send them out into the world again.  A new chapter begins soon enough.