In summer, for a child, there is not enough time.
There’s the Lemonade Stand. The friends to play with. The pools and lakes and rivers to forge through. The imaginary worlds to explore.
I told my boys an hour of screen time per day (at most) and all three were surprisingly agreeable to this.
As they roam the streets of our new neighborhood I think I understand.
They want to play. With people. In person.
Today the three threw together a Lemonade Stand and lasted an hour in this heat before one rushed to a friend’s and then the other two followed. The lemonade stand’s cups blew in circles beneath the little table and chairs. It looked sad, left behind. But this is how it is this summer. There isn’t enough time for all the things they want to do.
They have plans! And really, so do we.
Embracing Next 
I Love this post, Kate. The photograph is priceless. Although at first glance the lemonade, cups. tractor, and baseball bat look abandoned, what made me smile was that the kids took up all of these things to begin with during what always seemed to me as a kid as endless summer days. And that the kids are off with friends, but will return to take up maybe these same things, maybe other pursuits, all in the name of the freedom of summer.
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It is a beautiful space to be in.❤️
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