It’s almost July… which means summer is in full swing! Are you having fun?
Honestly, there are some things I absolutely love about summer: Lazy days… slower mornings… vacations… pool time… late nights… fun with friends… and coffee (oh wait, that’s year-round).
I love hanging out with my husband and kids because they are FUN. It’s nice to have them around and do things together that we just don’t have time for during the school year. My family is far from perfect, but we really, honestly enjoy each other.
What a blessing.
Seriously.
Now I know my blog is usually all about what God is doing in my life, and challenging you to see what God is doing in yours. But I wanted to do a little something different today.
Can we shift gears?
Okay, good.
I came up with a list of 5 things that drive me nuts about summer. Now, I’m not a cup-half-empty person. But in my pursuit to be real, I thought you might enjoy seeing some of the craziness my family has to live with.
So here are the 5 things I don’t like about summer:
1) Watermelon: I just don’t see any redeeming value. But everyone I know adores it, like it makes you a better American for eating it. So I eat it. Not only is it fairly tasteless, but I somehow get that tasteless juice all over me. And it’s sticky.
Oh, and I don’t even get a kick out of spitting seeds (although sometimes spitting things is fun… like Sonic ice chips through a straw at my kids to annoy them.) #Payback.
2) Heat: So it gets really hot in Colorado. Yes, I know. It’s dry heat. But 100 is 100 anyway you look at it. And being at least 5,000 feet in elevation, we are closer to the sun… the red-hot ball of fire that makes things boil and burn.
And when we add hot flashes to the mix, the July heat makes me want to carry a pitch fork and scream “Towanda!” Let’s just say… Momma likes her air conditioning.
3) Cottonwood Trees: While the cotton release offers a quick trip down memory lane of a few months ago when winter was in full swing and actual snow blanketed our yard… this fluffy whiteness brings with it sneezing, itchy eyes and headaches. Yuck, yuck, and yuck.
But since I am a silver lining kind of girl, I do see the one benefit it offers. As the cotton blows in the wind, it gets stuck in spider webs… the perfect warning of just where those nasty 8-legged critters are laying in wait for me. Because I know they are. Waiting. Watching.
4) Wasps: They love it here, and build nests everywhere they can on or by our house. And somehow, they find their way indoors. How can something that small strike such terror in someone a ka-billion times its size? My mom suggests that I at least act brave, but lying is a sin (convenient excuse) and so I chose to live the authentic life. Wasps freak my beak.
And when they end up in my living room, it does make me extra grateful for my cats. They take care of that problem real quick. Bugs inside are their territory, but give me a can of Raid and I become the wasp-hunter in the wild. #Impressive.
5) Sunscreen: I cannot stand the way it feels on my hands. My husband is convinced I have some whack-a-doo sensory issue that counseling might cure, but therapy for that issue will never make it into the budget. There are too many other ones more desperate for intervention.
But being the good mom that I am, I know it’s a vital part of summer fun. Sunburns are a one-way ticket to cranky town. So I make sure to lather my kids with it regardless of how it feels, cringing at every application. Why can’t they make it feel like the Body Shop’s Body Butter products? Just sayin’…
So there you have it – the top 5 things about summer that bother me.
What would YOU add to the list? Leave a comment and tell me. I’d love to know!
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I also have a whack a doodle sensory thing. I enjoy sitting at the beach with a good book for hours. However, the feeling of sand between my toes makes me shutter. (Have you seen the spray on sunscreen? It’s everywhere here in the Northeast.)
Dawn… glad I am NOT alone! Believe me, we’ve tried that spray sunscreen… but we never get good coverage. And I am totally with you on sand. Can only handle it for abut 3 days and then it grates on my nerves. LOL.
LOVE the list. Heat makes me ill (and I hate cold-and I live in Chicago). Sensory things are normal! There is such a thing as sensory processing disorder-but you have what I would call a “sensory sensitivity” to sunscreen. I don’t like the chemicals in the spray on kind-in fact I go for the pure titanium or zinc oxide ones-they don’t seem to feel as weird, and the chemicals are better for your skin. I hate watermelon, and actually melons of any kind. Its a taste/texture thing. I found out 4 years ago I am allergic to bees, so I have a new reason to fear them. And my allergies are awful this year! 🙁 On meds, off meds doesn’t matter I still sneeze and hack.
Heather… so glad you can relate to my craziness, girl! Loved your list just as much. 🙂
I LOVE summer … everything about it! Except for sand in unmentionable regions of my bathing suit. Ugh!
Sam… dude! That goes without saying. Worst. Part. Ever. 🙂
You make me smile! I love your list of things to hate about summer ~ ESPECIALLY the wasps! We live in a VERY old farmhouse and they must think they’ve hit THE jackpot of places to live. We live in a HIGH humidity state in the mid-west and while summer is actually my 2nd fav season (who doesn’t feel more energetic when the sun is shining?), I cannot handle the humidity. We also use the organic, zinc-oxide-only sunscreen, it doesn’t seem to have that ‘so-greasy-it’s-gross’ feeling when putting on. We do not have cottonwood trees but we make up for it in ragweed. 😉 HOWEVER ~ I’m with you on the lazy mornings, more time to read, POOL TIME!, vacations, etc etc….=)
Lorna… Oh the bugs that must be in and around that farmhouse! Girl, you are so very brave. 🙂 And I grew up in Texas, so I understand the aversion to humidity. Why do you think I settled in Colorado! LOL.
Besides the heat and humidity??? Sweating! There is absolutely nothing attractive about being drenched in sweat, I don’t care who you are. Maybe some young hunks can pull it off, but for the rest of us it’s just gross. And stinky. But the number one thing I hate about summer are the flies. I have a list of questions to ask God when I get to heaven. At the top of the list is, “Flies? Why????” LOL!
Nancy… Ah, sweating. Yes, my friend! That makes my list, too! Thanks for sharing… 🙂
I’m going to share on my fb page, Carey. Have a great day!
Carey I don’t like watermelon either! And the heat that’s is definitely something I’m not in love with. Too bad I’m in Florida where summer seems to be year round, LOL
LaToya… I feel better about my watermelon aversion now. Thank you! 😉
Bug spray – this requires a nightly shower or a gross covering as you go to bed!!!
Jeanelle… AMEN. But it beats the heck out of mosquito bites. True dat!
i am ALL about this list!! HATE sunblock- it’s messy and sticky and smelly…but a must. The prays are easier- fyi!! 😉 The only two places you will find me in the heat is at the pool or in AC. And Jeanelle took mine- (hee hee) I hate BUGS and BUG SPRAY. Mosquitoes ADORE me… and nats… and anything that likes the sweet sweat that is me…always in the summer!
After a weekend of camping, Chris… I REALLY appreciate that bug spray! 🙂 And I had the biggest pine beetle land on me that made me scream like a little girl. they are big and nasty! AWESOME…
{Melinda} I’m right there with you. Never a fan of any of those things. Especially sunscreen. Which I need. Badly. But I hate the way it makes me feel and it reminds me of how very, very devoid of pigment I am. 🙂