[The following post is a journal entry from April 17, 2023, which also happens to be my three-quarter birthday.]

This past Friday, I said to TJ that I really wished the track meet for Cash and Story hadn’t gotten moved to Saturday. TJ was sitting at the table and started asking me about why I wished that.

Dear Readers,

I have been wanting to write this post for a while, but time takes time. I had a ski accident just over 6 weeks ago. It happened on the first Sunday of November (the 6th). Though I wasn’t anticipating getting to ski that day because it was a rainy morning, the sun came out by the early afternoon and the temps were up to 70 degrees.

Dear Readers,

First, a thank you to Gretchen Rubin for her One-Sentence Journals that last for five years. I started my first one on October 17, 2017, and finished five years later on October 16, 2022. That felt like a big moment of completion. And then I started over again in a new journal three days ago.

Dear Readers,

Let me tell you something else about Story. Not only does she want to shop and buy things, she also wants to bake. Earlier in the summer, Story watched the American Girl movie about Grace, who likes to bake, and that is what led to us making raspberry scones.

Dear Readers,

I am always sad to see summer go. I love summer. I am glad my birthday is in summer. I need summer. And yet, summer always goes away.