Lilies of the Field

Reasons why it happens so fast:

1. There's somebody asleep in my bed everyday past 7 am (sometimes 8, 9, or 10 am), and it's almost always yours truly.
2. My bed actually gets made.  For about nine months, my duvet is more like carpet as it rests on its home--the floor.
3. Going to the gym at 9:30 pm or am is not even a question.  Just put on the sneakers and go!
4. Reading by the pool is an option with no guilt as to what I should be doing.
5. A constantly clean home.
6. Doing laundry at whatever pace that I would like.  Why?  Because I can do it all day!
7. Spendin' time with Jesus for any length of time with no rush to go get ready.
8. Staying in pajamas all day long.
9. Being able to have dinner AND lunch with friends and the hubs on a week day.  And if lunch ends up lasting 2 hours and 40 minutes, no biggie.
10. Using the restroom whenever I feel like it and not having to hold it.  (I know, TMI.)
11. Having room in my brain for anything else other than middle schoolers and English.
12. And the common theme amongst all of these: TIME.  I have it.  Lots of it.  It's glorious.

Dear Summer,

You are now my very best friend.  Ever.  You have given my brain all kinds of new freedom that it had forgotten that it had.  You allow me the time to do whatever needs to be done.  Overall, you just make me happy.  And the icing on the cake (drum roll, please) is that the cash (though little it may be) is still flowing to my bank account while I bask in your rays.  We're BFF, and I just want you to know this.

Hannah