I go out everyday with Cub, trying not to waste these last days that are warm enough for playing in the park or strolling down sidewalks window shopping or weekend hayrides. As night comes quicker and cooler...we are making our peace and saying goodbye to our sweet summer together. Goodbye to the heat and sweat and buzzing bees and wasps and hot kiss of sun on face and arms and the nape of the neck. Goodbye long days and waiting for tomatoes and watering the flowers. Goodbye to sunny weekend trips and time spent at the lake and summer weddings and parties.
This time last year, I held Cub in my arms, nearly all the time. Now he wriggles down and walks proudly and boldly wherever he wants to go. I have to laugh! It seems that time moves forward slowly, but the backward glance is the blink of an eye. In the blink of an eye the still time of the year has come again. I am eagerly anticipating the gifts that await; mornings spent with my family sipping hot chocolate, maybe a snow or two for sledding down our hill, the oven hot and steady, baking love in the shape of cookies while care simmers on the stovetop in my beef stew. Drawing close under blankets as we read stories together under the inky black of winter night, all a-shimmering with icy stars. Joy, joy everywhere. I pray we are all less sick this winter. I give thanks for the family and friends that give my life purpose. My heart is dancing, what about yours?
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