Summertime, Summertime

Almost every day, I ended up feeling like it wasn’t summer at all. And I missed it. I missed the break and the carefree window of time we get together once a year. I kept finding myself thinking about how the girls are now solidly in what is referred to as the ‘nostalgia bump’, which is the window of time where the core memories that define your childhood are established. When they are older, they will have memories from when they were under age 6 or 7, but those will be much fewer in comparison to those that are set between ages 8 and 15. All those memories of summer for me? Nostalgia bump. Favorite songs from when you were a kid? Nostalgia bump.

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