Indian Summer (TravelingMama)

Our life has been going a million miles a minute. We’ve been staying in a home that isn’t our own, living in a town that feels terribly familiar yet not totally ours anymore, and trying to balance homeschooling, travel, family time, and so much more. It’s been a little crazy! Jack and I have felt a little off kilter, especially in our creativity because so much of that flows from a place of settledness.

When we were down in Indian Shores a couple weeks ago, our parents took the kids for about an hour and we escaped to the beach with my beautiful cousin, Marianthi, who is all grown up despite the number of times we reminded her of the time when she was our flower girl in our wedding. As we began our photo shoot together, we all felt a little awkward together (Marianthi tried to convince us that she hated having her picture taken, though I’m still not buying it!), but after just a few minutes, the stress and lack of creativity that we have been struggling with melted away as suddenly everything fell into place.

It rained every other night that we were there, but here, in the final moment of our time together, the sun came out and there before us was the stunning Marianthi, the sea, and the sky. It was an incredible moment… one that left us trembling in our hearts.

I know that most of us are shifting towards Autumn, but I beg to take a little step towards an Indian Summer, and embrace this moment of warmth and sunlight before all the leaves begin to change and summer finally slips away…