It is now mid-July and I can’t believe how fast the summer has flown by. I am already receiving emails about the school year and boxes of curriculum have arrived. I’m saddened by how fast it has passed. In my heart I feel this compulsion to hold on and try to cram more summer into our remaining days. There are so many activities remaining on our Summer Bucket List. And yet, I know this isn’t really what we love so much about summer. The activities are fun, but they aren’t the heartbeat of the summer. And so, on this day when I want to plan our every minute to cram in as much fun as possible, I stop, take a deep breath, and just try to enjoy all that is happening around me. The kids are barefoot in the backyard, sweat dripping down their faces, popsicles in hand. There’s a pile of wet swim stuff in the hall and some dirty creeking clothes in the van. There’s a kid curled up in the hammock reading a book others are playing a game on the porch. Peaches are on the table and mint tea is on the stove. I look around, smile, and think of this quote from Anne of Green Gables:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I hope you can look around today and think of how lovely it all is, and be glad to be alive in it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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It is now mid-July and I can’t believe how fast the summer has flown by. I am already receiving emails about the school year and boxes of curriculum have arrived. I’m saddened by how fast it has passed. In my heart I feel this compulsion to hold on and try to cram more summer into our remaining days. There are so many activities remaining on our Summer Bucket List. And yet, I know this isn’t really what we love so much about summer. The activities are fun, but they aren’t the heartbeat of the summer. And so, on this day when I want to plan our every minute to cram in as much fun as possible, I stop, take a deep breath, and just try to enjoy all that is happening around me. The kids are barefoot in the backyard, sweat dripping down their faces, popsicles in hand. There’s a pile of wet swim stuff in the hall and some dirty creeking clothes in the van. There’s a kid curled up in the hammock reading a book others are playing a game on the porch. Peaches are on the table and mint tea is on the stove. I look around, smile, and think of this quote from Anne of Green Gables: “Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.” L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables. I hope you can look around today and think of how lovely it all is, and be glad to be alive in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[60,59],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-anne-of-green-gables","tag-summer"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_1769.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myhamperrunnethover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}