Summer Is Almost Over… Did We Make Enough Memories? ☀️❤️

You Don’t Have to Make Every Summer Day Magical!

The Countdown to school starting starts now!!!

Does anyone get to this point and wonder, where did my summer go?

The days are slowly starting to get shorter and it is starting to get a tiny bit cooler during the day. Not enough to claim that summer is going away, but enough to realize that soon a new school year will be starting up. The bittersweet end to a beautiful summer.

If you are anything like me, you are probably in two different places at once. You are probably thinking…

Did we take enough trips this summer? Did we do enough fun family activities? Did we have enough beach days? Did we have enough outings? Did we have enough relaxing days? Will my children remember these days and have fond happy feelings? Did we do enough?

And this is where I need a reminder too. Kids do not need to have everyday be magical. They don’t keep track of these kinds of things the way us moms do.

Sometimes, and I know that I am guilty of this myself, we feel that we need to fill in the time with as many activities as we can. We have to remember that our kids are going to remember the fun that they have and are not going to think about the things that you never did with them. So, moms, let me bee the first to say this to you.

Stop beating yourselves up about not feeling like you did enough with your kids!

They probably won't remember whether we checked everything off our summer bucket list. They'll remember the random ice cream run. Swimming until their fingers were wrinkly. Staying up later than usual. Laughing over something completely ridiculous. Riding in the car with the music turned up. Or getting Mom or Dad all to themselves for a little while.

Let’s face it, sometimes the best memories are not planned at all. I can’t tell you how many times that an impromptu “party or get together” happens at my house without me doing any planning at all. And to be honest, these were the best times that we have ever had when this happens.

Today, we took Traison somewhere special—just him. And it reminded me how good it feels to spend time with only one child once in a while. No trying to divide my attention five different ways. No worrying about what everyone else wants to do. Just getting to focus on him. We had a blast. This wasn’t planned and we just went with the flow.

It wasn't about creating some huge, picture-perfect summer moment. It was simply about being together.

So if you're looking at the calendar and feeling like summer disappeared way too quickly, here's your reminder—and mine:

You don't have to squeeze a whole summer's worth of magic into these last few weeks.

The ordinary days counted. The messy days counted. The days when everyone stayed home counted. The little moments counted. And chances are, somewhere in all that beautiful chaos, you already made more memories than you realize. ❤️

Soak up what's left of summer—but don't let the pressure to make it perfect keep you from enjoying it.