Summer 1

Okay, so I've decided summer goes way too fast.  I looked on the calendar for August to figure out when pre-school starts and I realized that we only have 24 more days until my little baby girl begins school!!!  I know, I know, it is only pre-school, but hey-- that's a major step in a little one's life, and an even more major one in a stay-at-home mom's life.  Our days are about to be radically different and I'm feeling a little wistful.  This morning Gigi wanted to eat "al fresco" as she said so we went outdoors and ate breakfast on the backporch.  It was sheer bliss sitting out there, in the warm sun, drinking my tea, eating oatmeal and eggs and clicking our tea glasses saying "cheers".  After we ate Georgia said, "Mom, can we swing on the hammock."  "Sure!"  I said, enjoying the fun of it all.  We lay there together, swinging in the breeze and talking nonsense.  Actually I think we were playing Peter Pan.  I was Peter and she was Wendy and we were on the pirate ship.  As we were laying there, enjoying the morning, a thought occured to me--  I want to spend my last twenty-four days of summer with Gigi doing nothing but this, having fun, swinging in a hammock, swimming, doing all the summery things that make this time of year lazy and wonderful.  I want to be deliberately wild and childlike with my daughter before this moment in our lives transitions to school days, school days dear old golden rule days...  And so I ran inside, grabbed my camera and snapped her there, perched on the hammock, looking below for mermaids and Captian Hook.  I'm going to try to catch one shot a day to document our last twenty four days of this magical time of mother-child living.  It will be my ode to Georgia and my ode to summer.  Here we go!

warning:  the next 24 shots may simply be me and Gigi at the pool.  :):)