Ah, the sun on my skin, there you are. my hair crunchy and matted in random places from swimming and swirled about into un-tamable shapes and spaztic points from driving with the windows down listening to music (everything from FloRida to Little Mermaid). ah, but the sun. i have missed you the way a plant misses rain during a dry spell. I have missed the heat radiating off my 'five' head ( in my family our foreheads are actually 'five' heads -- attributed to our ability to fit all five fingers between our eyebrows and hairline, as illustrated in some of these pictures - just saying bigger forehead, bigger brain ;) ) -- today it feels as though summer has officially started for us. After a bit of a rough start to the day - including a near meltdown on both our parts, we pulled ourselves together, I squeezed my plumper than usual body into an old swim suit and we high tailed it for Pottstown. What's in Pottstown you say? Only my amazing awesome family!! Yep, I told you I was obsessed with them. Seriously, is there anything better than hearing familiar voices as your approach the fence line to then be greeted by your cousin you haven't seen in forever -- i love that. then hugs all around. and the little nieces begging you to jump in the pool and swim under water with them. clinging to you like barnacles. i am not saying i am like a whale (though I love whales, not sure i have mentioned that yet -- but my dream is to swim with humpbacks). but i love my niece barnacles. the littlest ones are growing up so fast - both of them swimming under water and getting more courage to go closer to the deep end and challenge themselves. It makes me so nervous though. My instinct is to encourage them, but protect them fiercely. it's hard to explain my love for my nieces and nephew and great nephew and all future little ones in our lives that are currently 'on the way'. They are incredibly special people who I would lay my life on the line for. I mean anyone in my family, of course. My sisters, my amazing parents - I wish I could have known them when they were young. I would love to see how they were at family parties at our age. I am so lucky to have such great parents. I love my friendship with my Mom. I am so incredibly grateful for her humor and her listening ear and her encouragement of my art. She is by far one of my best friends on this planet and I would be lost without her. And my Dad - he's a showman. And a thinker. And I am an apple that doesn't fall far from that tree haha. I apsire to be like my parents in so many ways. Maybe one day Sarah and I will be parents. Only time will tell. For now, we are the aunts who love their little ones with all our hearts. Looking forward to another family party on Sunday! Anways, not too many pictures of pool day, but here are a few from my phone. Thanks again Kelli and Gary!
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