Ready or not...

It's that time of the summer - and I didn't want to be ready.  I pretended to ignore the signs that I was ready.  The neon bright signs of irritability when I hear the 17th calling of my name in less that 5 minutes, the response of "I'M DONE" when pulled into the 100th argument of the hour, my impatient replies to whiny snack demands...all signs.  I was fighting the urge to want the final weeks of summer to fast-forward.  We did a lot the last 10ish weeks, we didn't do nearly everything we would've liked, we did enough.  I hope my kids will look back at this summer recall the "we did's" as standouts and the "we would've liked's" fade away.  

But I'm ready.  They're ready.  Ready for a new routine.  Ready for the reinvigoration a new season brings.  Ready to plug into my business more throughly.  Most of all, I'm ready for their absence during the day, to make my heart remember the fondness I really do have for my littles (even though they aren't so little any more😞😌).  Onto Fall, our front oak trees were summoning the season weeks ago.  A season that welcomes some of my favorite traditions and holidays.  It will bring more growth and focus.  It will be good.  I'm ready.