Remember To Be Present

The moment July 4th comes and goes I already feel as if summer is halfway over.

I start to try to get in more beach days and enjoy the longer evenings because I know within just a few short weeks, Target’s back to school shopping aisles will be jam-packed with spiral notebooks and 15 types of hilighters.

August is the month for slowing down. Perhaps your kids are done with camp and little league. Maybe you’ve carved a week out of your work schedule to spend at the ocean in the Cape or up in New Hampshire by the lake.

No room for time off? Take your weekend to slow down. Get the ice cream cone. Grab the kayak or golf clubs. Read a good book. Let the kids run through the sprinklers and stay up past their bedtimes.

Before long we will be trading in our beach carts for shopping carts. S’mores and fire pit evenings will be spent with sports practices, band concerts and back-to-school nights.

Our lives get so busy that sometimes we forget to just live. We forget to be present.

I hope you spend your August enjoying the warmth and the sun and family BBQ’s because soon enough we will be counting down the days until summer 2023.