What I like about summer:
- swim team practices (and the moms who share in carpooling the boys back/forth)
- fruit in season and the sales upon it - nectarines, peaches, plums, raspberries, strawberries
- 4th of July
- the smell of water from the hose when it hits the pavement (always makes me think of my childhood)
- easy schedules
- summer rainstorms
- popsicles
- catching fireflies (and then letting them go)
- having some time to teach my kids something new
- what the kids smell like when they come in from playing outside: something like sunscreen, grass clippings, hose water, and kid-sweat
- the stack of books that are waiting for me to read them
- the free Six Flags tickets the school gives out to the kids who meet their reading goals
- short haircuts
What I don't like:
- heat
- humidity
- every summer I buy a cool, summery white shirt, and it's ruined within 2 days of its purchase (it actually made it to 3 days this year - still a bummer)
- vacuuming up piles and piles of shed dog fur
- no time of day to go on a run when it's not hot/humid
- kids who don't get out of the pool when it's time to go
- strange comments about my new short haircut ("Mom, you look like Willy Wonka.")
- my inability to take a good picture of myself (that's actually year-round; not just summer)
