🏖️Summer Day Hodgepodge 🏖️
Joining Joyce today for a Hodgepodge
1. Summer’s Here! ☀️
What I love most about summer is the long days. I love having extra daylight to enjoy life a little longer. Whether it’s sitting on the porch, taking a walk, or watching a beautiful sunset, summer evenings seem to last forever.
My biggest summer pet peeve? Stepping in a piece of chewed gum that someone carelessly spit out on the ground. Nothing ruins a good day faster than scraping gum off your shoe!
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2. What song always reminds you of summer? 🎶
Island in the Sun by Weezer. The laid-back vibe and carefree feel of that song instantly transport me to warm sunny days, road trips, and summertime adventures.
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3. Childhood Summers 🌻
When I think about childhood summers, I remember being outside from morning until dark. Running through the water sprinkler, cheering at my brothers’ baseball games, eating homemade ice cream, and going barefoot almost everywhere. I loved visiting my Papa’s store where he’d always let me have a free soda and a piece of bubblegum. Vacation Bible School was another summer highlight, along with all the simple joys that came with being a kid.
Do kids today enjoy summer the same way? Not a chance......Many children spend more time indoors with screens than outside making memories. They don’t know the excitement of racing through sprinklers, catching lightning bugs, riding bikes until sunset, or spending entire days outside with neighborhood friends. Summer felt like freedom back then, and I think a lot of that magic has been lost.
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4. Father’s Day ❤️
I probably favor my dad more in temperament than appearance. He was steady, kind, hardworking, and always there when his family needed him. Truthfully, we’ve been blessed with some of the best dads in our family. Their love, guidance, and example have shaped generations, and I couldn’t ask for better role models.
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5. Summer This or That 🌞
- Flip flops or sandals? Flip flops
- Beach or pool? Pool
- Watermelon or peaches? Watermelon
- Shorts or sundress? Both!
- Iced coffee or ice-cold lemonade? Ice-cold lemonade
- Amusement park or water park? Water park
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6. Random Thought 💭
Summer teaches us that some of life’s best memories aren’t expensive or elaborate. They’re found in simple moments—a cold glass of lemonade, bare feet in the grass, laughter with family, and watching the sun slowly sink below the horizon. Sometimes the simplest things end up meaning the most. ❤️☀️🌻
Shug.........
My grandkids discovered our sprinkler the other night and immediately started running through it in their clothes. They had so much fun and I was reminded simple pleasures really are the best. Hope you have a great day!
ReplyDeleteGood answers, Shug.
ReplyDelete🎶 'give me those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer'
ReplyDeleteI loved your random. :-)
ReplyDeleteOh gosh the gum!! YUCK!! That has happened to me.
I love everything about your #3, Shug! How blessed we were to have fertile imaginations and the means to make even the silliest things entertaining.
ReplyDeleteThat water park image at the top looks so much like a place in Ft. Worth where I nearly drowned, lol!
Simple pleasures are always the best, hands down! I miss those carefree days of childhood, Shug, but the memories are priceless. Blessings!
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