Goin' Nowhere Fast...

My last few weeks have played out much like Molly on her giraffe-- I've gone nowhere fast but I've used up a lot of energy getting there! Actually, The Wright gang has been many places lately and we've gotten to most of them by driving forward and not pedaling backward!

Our days have been full of endings, beginnings, construction, deconstruction, tons and tons of baseball and softball, a birthday party or two, a trip with some very happenin' and adorable folks, some pet sitting, and a graduation celebration.

As summer whispers its possibilities in our ears, we look toward time with family and friends, time in the pool, time playing flash light tag until way past bedtime, time reading on our back porch, time gathering lightening bugs, time spent exploring, and maybe, just maybe, some time spent in a tent. Mostly what we are looking forward to is time spent together!

"Then followed that beautiful season...Summer....
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; 
   and the landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood."
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Summertime Promises

Summer.  For some, the arrival of summer means the relaxing of schedules, the easing of commitments, the slowing down-if only a little- of the regular pace of life.  Our family activity level does just the opposite.  As the sun begins to shine its summer rays on us, baseball is still in full swing, swimming lessons have begun, an exciting family wedding is on the horizon, my bible school preparations are should be in progress and...I'll stop there.

Each of us who can read has a pile of books waiting for our attention and we've signed up for reading programs at no fewer than three bookstores and one library.  Two of us have blogs that need tending and two of us have learned to Tweet on Twitter!  Theater camp, basketball camp, vacation bible school, softball camp, zoo camp, and football practice await us in the coming weeks.

As the sand left in my hour glass is emptying and my laundry basket is terribly full, I'm signing off early with promises of blogs to come.  Blogs about:

• the "jungle" project (alternatively titled Poison Ivy Anyone?) 
• a boy learning responsibility for living things in his care
• lessons on a scooter
• introductions to dear friends
• a recipe for a classic
• disassembling a sentimental piece of furniture
• a sentimental movie
• baseball championship highlights
• a man, a fridge and a plan

Thanks for checking in on us!!  Have a super summer weekend!