Episode notes

If you’re anything like me you try to make the most of every season, especially summer. The blue skies, hot sun, and sound of splashes and laughter in the pool are missed once school starts again and yearned for during the cold months. Each season only comes once per year and though we know it will come again next year and every year after this, things will be different.

Children give us the wonderful gift called the reminder that time is fleeting. I took my son to a splash pad recently with a friend of mine and her daughter. As I sat under the umbrella with my panting pup next to me, I had a realization: my son is no longer the littlest. Of course it’s part of life for everyone to grow and it would be alarming if we all stayed babies forever! But that doesn’t change the feeling of grief that comes when we realize things like this.

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