summer lovin’

Guys, it’s mid-August already.

I am a summer baby and live for the 2-ish months out of the year where I don’t need to wear a jacket or pants that reach my ankles. My goal for the next few weeks (i’m praying for an indian summer), is to soak it all in, as much as I can. I’ve been thinking about what I love most about this flash in the pan season and I thought it would be nice to list some things that get me through the long, cold winter.

• not waking up in the dark
• lightning bugs
• not wearing a jacket
• Dolly’s Ices 
• the smell of the morning
• torrential summer downpours
• coming inside from the heat to an air conditioned building
• lazy afternoons in the pool
• being tan
• the first shower after the beach/baking in the backyard
• mermaid hair (even though my hair constantly ignores my pleas to be mermaid-y)
• July
• long days
• stoop nights
• pizza and vanilla swirl ice cream from L&B

  

• neons
• vitamin D – sunshine!
• fruit straight from the refrigerator
• mini golf
• shorts
• a perfectly grilled cheeseburger 
• my birthday
• Italian feasts/street fairs
• dining al fresco
• pina coladas
• laying in bed with the air conditioner blasting

What are your favorite things about summer? What do you think about during the winter to get you through?