I know I’m a broken record, but wow, it’s August already? Remember when you were a kid and summer vacation seemed to stretch out forever?! I don’t know if it’s getting older or if it’s just that we don’t have back to school as a time marker anymore, but I feel like time is just flying by.

I guess it’s also because we’ve been doing so much. This summer has been full of camping (complete with morning fires and pour over coffee) as well as a trip to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter! I absolutely loved it. We had butterbeer, I tried my hand at some spells with Hermione’s wand, and we ordered off the kids menu because mac and cheese and chicken strips for life.

Sometimes it’s easy to forget, in the day-to-day of it all, how lucky I am to have found my person. Mike indulges me way too much and I have to admit, I take it for granted way too often – just like that Drake song I’m obsessed with. I’m trying to be better about it because I really am the luckiest I can be. Who else would go to Harry Potter with me and eat mac and cheese and wait around in the hot hot heat while I try for the millionth time to do the spells that were created to be successful for 4 year olds?

So, in efforts to show Mike a bit more “hey, I love you, please stay with me forever,” I made him a steak because nothing says I love you like red meat. I did up a dashi butter basted flank steak on top of a bed of buttery mashed potatoes and it was absolute magic. Maybe even as magic as Mike taking me to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter? ;)