At the beginning of summer I had grand ideas of how I was going to love our neighborhood.
They would be simple, little ways.
But would be an open door, nonetheless.
All the sudden I realized today is July 16th, in a month my babies will be back in school.
And I have yet to do any of those things I swore would be so easy to do.
So I got the cones and the ice cream.
I grabbed a little blue ikea table with my favorite blue folding chair from our garage.
(Oh man, that garage is really the thing needing intentional love.)
I sent text to a few friends saying "come get ice cream".
It was hot and the ice cream was melting so fast.
Sticky fingers and chocolate smiles.
Kids riding bikes and running in the house to play x-box.
I sat with a friend, while we talked with another about parenting and vacations.
Then another friend came and we sat and talked and shared until the sun no longer danced in the sky.
We got bit countless times by those pesky mosquitoes.
Interrupted a dozen plus times by those small people we created.
But we were together.
Not in our homes checking off lists or staring at an instagram screen to numb out.
We were together.
And while my goal was to show love to others, they did it for me.
I'm the one who needed the love.
I needed the togetherness.
I needed to not have to check more things off a to-do list.
To just sit and be.
They would be simple, little ways.
But would be an open door, nonetheless.
All the sudden I realized today is July 16th, in a month my babies will be back in school.
And I have yet to do any of those things I swore would be so easy to do.
So I got the cones and the ice cream.
I grabbed a little blue ikea table with my favorite blue folding chair from our garage.
(Oh man, that garage is really the thing needing intentional love.)
I sent text to a few friends saying "come get ice cream".
It was hot and the ice cream was melting so fast.
Sticky fingers and chocolate smiles.
Kids riding bikes and running in the house to play x-box.
I sat with a friend, while we talked with another about parenting and vacations.
Then another friend came and we sat and talked and shared until the sun no longer danced in the sky.
We got bit countless times by those pesky mosquitoes.
Interrupted a dozen plus times by those small people we created.
But we were together.
Not in our homes checking off lists or staring at an instagram screen to numb out.
We were together.
And while my goal was to show love to others, they did it for me.
I'm the one who needed the love.
I needed the togetherness.
I needed to not have to check more things off a to-do list.
To just sit and be.
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