I want to have bonfires, and swim at the Winnie’s, and have water balloon fights, and have relay races, and roast marshmallows, and go on hikes, and roast hotdogs, and ride bikes, and play Ghost in the Graveyard, and play Frisbee Golf, and put Emma’s and my hair in little braids, and make a summer video!
Dorothy Harbaugh
What I Want My Daughter to Do in Michigan This Summer
Wake up early and eat bad cereal, play computer games with her cousins, get poison ivy in the woods, scrape her knee and go crying to her aunt for support, laugh and play and have fun, but also be unreasonable and selfish and a know-it-all city mouse and be put in her place by country mice relatives. I want her to enjoy the space and fresh air and the Michigan sunsets, but also miss her bed and our routines and us - her parents - who love her enough to give her up for a week, knowing full well - she might never want to come back.
Brad
Bad cereal? Dorothy, your father speaks as if he were never a child growing up in a household where Trix was poured into bowls the size of horse troughs.
ReplyDeleteI love seeing our house and seeing "summer" through your eyes, Dorothy, and your visit is a gift to us; it's a reminder of all the things we are lucky enough to share with you when you come here. You bring a ray of sunshine with you everywhere you go!
Hi Dorothy, this is Tristan. I like your ideas. I like water balloon fights. I want to be on the same team with you and Gabe.
ReplyDeleteGoodbye,
Tristan.
This makes me think of the summers that my parents would send my brother and I to the big house for a month. Makes me smile. Uncle B.J. ( You will always be Uncle B.J. to Matt and I) poison Ivy huh?
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