a farewell to summer…

…that brought our family

bunnies and one day old chicks a new zip code and a three hour time change our first home purchase (+ a floor pooled with water in the laundry room on day two in the new house because #welcome-to-home-owning, the walls laughed) a lot of therapeutic tears and hard conversations “pokies” in the bottoms of our shoes from adventures in the desert color swatches and personal thrill at painting my first front door any color i fancy story pirates- keeping us on the edge of our buckled seats in car rides both long and short a graduation from stroller napping our first monsoon a coconut creme obsession soccer shoes with cleats hidden underneath drawn up dreams on tracing papers with a home renovation slowly taking shape the very best taylor swift album freckles and tan lines and sun hats (and 110+ degree temps each day for 50 days) a deeper love and appreciation for dear friends, family and loved ones we don’t get to see, hug and hold as often the promise of a gentler winter a determination to refocus ourselves on the good, and make the best of a new chapter we’d never anticipated writing

and things to look forward to in the near future –

like… a front stoop for carved pumpkins fresh eggs from the coop out back a roof strung with twinkling christmas lights soon enough and a new mailbox out front for eleanor to paint spaceships and daisies on

welcome, september!...