🇺🇸🧨✨ Happy Fourth of July! ✨🧨🇺🇸
{Promotional portrait of American actor Sally Field sitting on a wooden surfboard with an American flag and eating a watermelon, for the television series, “Gidget”, circa 1965. | Photo by ABC Television/Getty Images | Pinned HERE}
Hello, July! We’re ready for all the fun you bring this month, starting with our “Fourth of July” celebrations and watching “JAWS” in the dark. We’re ready for our “Christmas in July” party to follow not long after the 4th, where Christmas gets a summer makeover.
We’re ready for the school year to come to a close and with that, the chance to visit with family that we have not seen in many, many moons. We’re ready for those lazy hazy days of summer that you will bring. Eating cherries while reading books, dipping our toes in the cool ocean water and feasting on homemade ice cream for dinner on hot summer nights.
We’re ready for pimento cheese sandwiches and salty potato chip dinners on the beach and marshmallows roasted to within an inch of their life before being smooshed between chocolate coated cookies for dessert.
We’re ready to keep grooving to the 70’s and 80’s music that has so far been the soundtrack of our summer. We’re ready for the few adventures we have planned before you come to a close. Welcome, July! We’re ready for all that you bring.
{4th of July Bar | Paige Spearin}
HELLO, June. We’re ready for our table to be heaped with heirloom tomatoes and fresh corn on the cob. We’re ready for evening to crawl in a little later, while we eat ice cream and watch the waves roll in from the shore.
We’re ready for early morning beach strolls, hunting for shells amongst the rocks. We’re ready to stretch out on our bed, with the windows wide and read books with a bowl of popcorn between us.
We’re ready to make fresh shortcakes, heaped high with strawberries that are nestled in pillows of whipped vanilla cream. We’re ready to listen to more Carolina beach music and dance in the kitchen while dinner is cooking.
We’re ready for all that you bring this month as we move more fully into summer and the opportunities to drink it all in.
{Oh, Shucks! by Paige Spearin | Pinned HERE}
Hello, May. We’re ready for you to continue to lengthen our days and bring us more of a taste of the summer yet to come. We’re ready for more adventures with friends, with weekends spent exploring and laughing together till our sides hurt.
We’re ready for opportunities to breakfast on the beach, hoping to spot a seal in between bites of breakfast sandwiches and crossword puzzling.
We’re ready for the three luxuriously long weekends you bring this month and the chance to soak those days up in each other’s company.
We’re ready for more fruits and vegetables to appear at our greengrocers as our table spreads to include more spring greens tossed in pasta, salads, risotto and everything in between.
We’re ready for all that you hold as we continue to appreciate the little things in each day and making the most of the season of spring.
{Audrey Hepburn in dress from Givenchy Boutique at her home ‘La Paisible’ in Switzerland, taken by Henry Clarke for Vogue, 1971 | Pinned HERE}
As Clairee says, “Now, it’s almost time for the Easta’ Bunny! Run on down!”.
So, hurry up and get those eggs dyed and those baskets ready for his arrival. 🥕
{Doris Day | Circa 1965 | Studio Portrait: “Doris Day wears a high-neck, yellow jacket with a brooch on her right shoulder, as she prepares to paint a basket of stacked eggs” | Getty Images | Pinned HERE}
Hello, April. You’re picking up where March left off with a cool, blustery, rainy start. We’re ready for you to bring some sunshine our way, although I won’t complain about a snow day off from school, if you usher that in before you leave us.
We’re ready to watch the bulbs continue to sprout from the earth and burst forth in a sea of pinks, blues, yellows and whites. We’re ready for the Easter Bunny to pay us a visit and hopefully leave a few surprises in our Easter basket.
We’re ready for the Easter break from school and a chance to catch our breaths. We’re ready for the opportunity to breakfast on the beach and go for long strolls with no plan, just going with where our feet take us. We’re ready for our days to continue to lengthen as we move more fully into the season of spring.
We shall continue to find space in the quiet moments, to dance, to enjoy each other’s company and to find joy in the little things.
Welcome, April! We’re ready for all that you bring this month.
{Vespa Bunny, by Paige Spearin | Pinned HERE}
🍀 Happy St. Patrick’s Day! 🍀
May your day be fair and full of green. And may all the golden luck, rainbows and good wishes be with you today! 🌈
{Joan Parker, “St. Patrick’s Day Layout”, 1966. | Photo by ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images}
Hello, March. We’ve already seen a few signs of your spring-y arrival, here and there with the bursting forth of snowdrops and daffodils. They’ve been dotting hills, lawns and gardens with little dazzling white and custard yellow bursts of magic against the green.
We’re ready for you to continue lengthening our days little by little. We’re ready for more ramblings in the woods and along the coastal path. We’re ready to wear the green for St. Patrick’s Day and feast on my Nana’s Irish soda bread.
We’re ready to dance in our kitchen, crafting meals that allow us to cook with the season. We’re ready for more movie watching, popcorn eating, puzzle doing, quiet weekends just getting to be together.
We’re ready to carry on in this season of Lent and use it carefully as a time for reflection and an opportunity to commit even more “random acts of kindness”. In my family we always “added” too Lent, alongside abstaining from something of our choice for 40 days. My parents instilled in us a need to do good within your own community and we have carried that into adulthood.
We’re ready to continue to cherish the little things, to stop and be present and to find peace in the quiet moments.
Welcome March, we’re ready for all good things.
{Daffodils by Tatiana Boyko // Central Illustration Agency | Pinned HERE}
💗 Happy Valentine’s Day! 💗
To me, Valentine’s Day is a celebration of L-O-V-E in all its many shapes and forms, and although it’s highlighted on this day, there are 364 other days in the year when it should be celebrated too.
May your day be filled with love in all its many shapes and forms.
{American actress, singer and dancer Debbie Reynolds, circa 1955. Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images | Pinned HERE}
