June 21st has always been a date that I liked, first it's my cousin's and grandpa's birthday, secondly it marks the longest day of the year, and thirdly it generally means summer is in full swing. I'm sure that most of you are dreaming that today summer will actually begin behaving like it ought and say good bye to the dreaded cold and rain--all I'm wishing for are shorter days ahead. How contrary to the dreary darkness of winter. (And Ken, he's simply baffled as to why hockey is still on TV.)
Light starts shining around 3:45 am here and lasts until well after 10 pm. I'm sure that my attitude should be one of seizing the day, I'm just not sure how much seizing one can do with inducing a seizure (interestingly enough, the act of which is also called seizing.) Anyhow, each night we make Rawly's room into a little cacoon, covering the blinds with two blankets, placing a folded sheet on top of the window in his door, shutting out the light from our windowed door also--hoping that our feeble attempts will be able to fight the light for one more night of slumber. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.
For some reason this last week he has not wanted to fall asleep for anything. Tonight, however, we were coming home from dinner with some friends and he practically feel asleep in the stroller and was asleep on the changing table. Let's hope it lasts 'til (late) morning. *Late for us is around seven.
So here's to carpe diem--what are you going to do with all the light on this day?
Happy birthday Kathryn!
What a nice post! Thank you Alyssa! We love the long days around here - yesterday (June 21) was beautiful and we stayed out in our front yard just enjoying it fully. Today it is back to the gloom and grey. Makes it easier to be at work, I guess. 2 more days for me! Take care :)
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