Summer=family

It seems to me that summer is irrevocably linked with family. I see my parents, my sister and my extended family a lot in the summer, and I like it that way!

I’ve made the 80-mile drive to my parents’ house twice already this month, and that’s on the heels of a baseball game and a birthday brunch in June. To cap off the week, we had dinner at my sister’s house last night… it was our first time seeing their new house, and so we got the grand tour and enjoyed good wine and conversation.

And the last week of July, we’ll be making our annual trek to Stone Harbor. There really is nothing like the Jersey shore! This year there will be 12 of us, and it promises to be a great week, despite the fact that we’ll all be missing my Uncle Tony a lot. He loved our trips to Stone Harbor so much that my aunt had him buried with his Stone Harbor tee shirt under his suit!

Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing… take time to spend with your family, whether it’s your blood-family or your chosen-family. That’s summer.