the summer days

270.  my mom, my children's grandmother for loving, feeding, entertaining, scolding, swimming, sliding, jumping, reading to, with and on my children these summer days

271.  my husband for doing the same!

272.  my husband for braving to Shreveport August heat to mow the yard

273.  my husband for cleaning the house after keeping the kids and mowing the yard

274.  words from a coworker friend to treasure these times when my people are  young as she watches her baby start her senior year of high school