Parent superheroes may have a count down until the first day of school. I feel like there's a familiar carol playing on loop in your minds...
Teachers are trying to prep our lessons, classrooms, and catch every single solitary nanosecond of summer left.
Maybe you're in that fun game of both roles. Do you even get to sleep? May the odds be ever in your favour.
Sometimes, I think, we all get so caught up in this idea of creating memories, creating fun, creating joy, and all of this pressure just continues to build and build until someone or something breaks. We all crave summer in Canada, our winters are cold, dark, long, and miserable for some...so then we think we have to make the most of everything...but what if...instead of creating, instead of running to the next thing...we paused.
We paused while our children laughed and made a mess. We paused while the sun was setting and didn't feel the need to post it, but just drink it in. We paused and rested on the couch or had a movie marathon with zero judgement, pressure, or guilt.
Couldn't we just press pause a little more and remember that this life is one to enjoy. Through the mess, the fights, the tears, the laughter, the snoring...all of it. The good moments, the memories happen in the pauses.
So yes, we welcome all our families with wide open arms and corny jokes (courtesy of Mrs. Lauren, don't say you were never warned) but for now, we're pausing and drinking in these lazy, crazy, hazy days of summer.
Come join us and make some new preschool memories!