Bounty

Sometimes I get so frustrated living in Arizona. We have summer for about 8 months of the year. Summer is so hot and so long, we feel like we will never be cool again. It's especially hard around this time of year because I feel like it should be starting to get nicer. School has started and the weather should start getting a little crisper, a little nicer every day. In southern Arizona, this won't happen until late October. Two more months. It's hard to stay focused on the things that are good about summer and good about the heat.

This little face is exactly the reminder I need.

There are wonderful things about the summer that we just can't get in the winter and that just aren't the same back in the east. We get the most incredible produce ever. I guess it's our proximity to California and our own long growing season(s).

What a haul! This morning, we needed some milk so Amy and I went to the grocery store. We got all that yummy stuff for under $15. wow.

A lot of it is going to be baby food. This kid is a strawberry junkie. She would pretty much eat her own head if it was mixed with strawberries.

Wait a second... These didn't come from the grocery store!!

No, these are all that are left of Amy's first baking time. She did the stirring (and stirring and stirring and stirring and smooshing and stirring) and she added the vanilla. Nice job, kiddo!

So anyway, the point is, I'm trying very hard to live here in the present and quit wishing it was cooler, further east, greener, or anything else. It is FINE. We have plenty of reasons to love being right. here.