Summer so far: salads, splash pads, and…
We’re almost to the halfway mark of our summer break from preschool. Which both feels like a miracle and a blur. Some days have crawled on one episode of Paw Patrol at a time. But mostly, we’ve been soaking up the sunshine and playing outside, meeting friends for playdates at the park, and having adventure days near and far. And in between that, I’m trying to squeeze in a few hours here and there with completing projects for my part-time job.
How has your summer been so far? Any big adventures? Highs and lows? What have you been eating and drinking?
One of my favorite things to eat this summer has been some variation of the salad shown above. Our strawberry plants really showed off the whole month of June, gifting us the sweetest, deepest red berries you can imagine. We were picking about a pint a day. My kids are berry monsters, so most were grabbed by them out of the basket and eaten standing right over the patch. Of the ones that made it inside, some were tossed with lettuce from the backyard, whatever nuts that I had on hand, bacon, a cheese (usually blue or goat), a diced apple, apple cider vinegar, and a tiny sprinkle of this lemon zest salt.
Isn’t he a beaut? My son brought home some tiny sunflower plants from preschool months ago. They slowly, slowly grew in our backyard until suddenly one day, their blooms started opening. The cheerful yellow sunflowers make me smile every time I see them. My grandsunflowers!
How do you beat the heat? This article and the comments — always the best part! — has a lot of good ideas on how to keep cool. Is this my sign to finally order these linen pants (in olive) that I’ve been eying for a while?
This video makes me want to plant peonies all over our backyard.
Made me laugh.
My next craft project?
And a quote that I loved: “Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.” by Mary Oliver.
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