Yesterday for the last day of school for my kids and tomorrow is the first day of several of our summer trips – summer is officially here!

A couple of years ago I realized that despite spring being my favorite season, I actually do really LOVE summer.I love laid back days with no schedule or agenda, sleeping in (well, as much as I can sleep in with my dog asking me to go for a morning walk), reading in bed, going to the pool, watching movies, having picnics, watching my kids and their friends play in the backyards and run through sprinkles, eating ice cream and enjoying lazy evenings with my neighbors in our backyards.   I remember working a lot over the last few summers and feeling that I did not get to enjoy summer much at all because of all the sessions I had planned.  And as many articles on my FB feed keep reminding me, you only have 18 summers with your kids at home before they leave the nest go to off to collage; my girls are nine now which means that half of those summers are already behind us.

I don’t want this summer to pass me by while I am too busy editing and shooting and marketing and doing all those business things that I do really enjoy but that take a lot of time.  So this summer I am making a conscious decision to make it easy, to relax and recharge, give myself permission to be lazy and really ENJOY it.  I will take a very limited number of sessions this summer (most of them while my girls are in collage) and will do some off-line work (again when my kids are in camp) but will try my absolute will best to be present and enjoy every moment of it.