Nowadays, though, how different it is. The start of the NFL season means that ski sales are underway, the Great American Beer Festival is right around the corner, I don't have to worry about hot days doing yard work for another seven or eight months, and it's getting to be time to wax the snowboard. How glorious the fall can be if given the right incentive to cheer for winter.
Before too long, I will once again have to think of this time of year being "back to school" time as the daughter reaches school age, but for now I savor the good things that come of the colder seasons. I can also take time to savor the sheer cuteness of those toddler days:
I've gotten to the point now where blogging as a parent, I realize that most of my audience has done this before, probably more than once. So I kind of feel that whatever I say about parenting has already been felt and expressed elsewhere. I do want to say, though, that I am honored and privileged to be able to spend so much time with such a child. I'm glad the first year and a half isn't something that I missed out on. What a great time it is.
Too late to be writing. It's a "school night", and I should have been asleep a couple of hours ago. I hope everyone had a great long weekend and gets an even better short week. Cheers, and good night.
