One of my favorite parts of working in education is that life comes in seasons. The excitement and newness of fall lead into a perfectly-timed break at Christmas, followed by spring break just as we start to feel weary and need a break. Summer break is the best part because it gives us a time to recharge – to spend slow time with the people we love and soak in the long, warm summer nights.
This summer has been everything I’d hoped for. Jordan didn’t teach summer school so he could be home with me and Caleb and our days together have been more wonderful than I could say. We’ve done a whole lot of nothing in the best of ways and I wouldn’t trade our slow days of Netflix binging, baby snuggling, coffee drinking, house projects, and general silliness for anything. One of our biggest goals as a couple is to go against the grain and live slow, to say no to the whirlwind of commitments and activities so we can say yes to our family and the relationships and people God has for us. And this summer, we have done just that.