Well, hello, friends. I am so glad to be here with my cup of coffee. Did you guys grab your cup of coffee? Mine says rise and shine today. And I'm on my first cup of coffee and I really need needed more than one. So grab your cup of coffee.

Let's chat today. Here we are at the beginning of summer. This is early June now. And I don't

know if you feel this way, but sometimes I literally go, how is it? And people joke and say that

May is like Maysember, like it's like December, it feels like Christmas.

I never really understood that until I became a mom of multiple kids of different ages.

And there were things to celebrate at the end of the semester or there were assignments to turn in.

But regardless of what season of motherhood or even if you're not a mom,

I think we all feel it that somehow there's this sprint, right? I hope you're nodding your head

and agreeing. But there's like the sprint to the finish line of spring. I feel it constantly in

the months of April and May that there's this feeling of like,

if I just sprint and hurry and hustle and work really, really hard, there is the reward of summer.

I think about how summer break holds this idea of, it's like the promised land.

It's like, okay, if I could just get to summer, then I'll get to

the projects I didn't have time for. I'll schedule the doctor's appointments that I couldn't get in.

Or we'll just, you know, wait and summer will come and we'll reconnect as a family. Or if I've

struggled to have time with my kids, oh my goodness,

summer is when we'll have the conversations that really matter or we'll really connect with our hearts.

Or that's when those meaningful moments will really happen. Do you hear how much pressure

I'm putting on myself? And if you are in agreement, do you hear how much pressure I'm putting on myself? And if you are in agreement,

do you hear how much pressure that feels like is happening when we say those things? Or not to

mention the idea that we plan and plan and save for a grand summer vacation, let's say. And grand can mean, you know, in Europe or it can mean

Yosemite or it could be a week at the beach. Whatever it is, grand is just that idea that you've been

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