Oh Summer...

This morning at another kitchen table I reflected on watching a little Firecracker head off to school...third grade...and I wrote...

And just like that summer is gone ...

all those things we thought we had so much time to do...

and now just a blur of days that went way too fast...

Back to school--nothing shouts goodbye summer as much as this...

and though we have a new season with new hope and joy and adventure...

we wonder...just where did summer go?

 

 

The seasons whirl by much like our lives...yet there is hope for the next.   We grab pictures of the first dayand I am thankful to get to enjoy this time.   Even though a little struggle of one who just had tonsils taken out...but wanting to go to school.  

 

So I add a few shots I snapped as a keepsake of this day...



Of course she always wants a pic with her mom...these two have went through many seasons...and I am blessed to have them in my life...

and probably what caught me most was as the girls headed off for the walk to school...a police car cruised by...and it brought a smile and I held back a tear...seemed a hug from Heaven....I think of her daddy...so I caught one as they were leaving and then Heather had got another... 

 

I think how much she has changed...how life has changed...Yes she survived the first day...a little tired...but doing pretty awesome considering...and so I wonder what Fall will bring...cooler days...excitement...and I hear the words....cha...cha...changing...talking to a friend today and seemed to be a message...Embrace the season...okay perhaps that isn't entirely about school...and I read something from a special "soul sista"...and she wrote...Thank you for sharing Cheryl...

 

"Some of the places we have to walk, make the journey sacred and mysterious. 

Walking down that road anyway.  fear is fading as I step forward with purpose."

 

Hmmmm....and I think of these steps into a new season...and thankful that God is right there with us...

 

lyp