August Feelings

August has traditionally been a time of year that I've been in transition. 

Literally and figuratively.

August has always usually been a time of moving home, or summer camp ending, leaving summer friends, summer jobs and the long lingering days of summer sun. 

August sort of closes the chapter on summer.

Then in the summer of 1978 everything changed! 

41 years ago this month I gave birth to my first son.

Not just a new chapter, but it was the beginning of an entirely new BOOK! A book I am still writing. The one about how it is to grow a baby and become a mother, a woman in the world, "with child" and now a grandmother, or as my granddaughter has named me, MyMamie!

There have been many moons since that first summer night I nursed my baby to back to sleep in our king size bed. Many, many moons. 

Almost as many moves, changes and transitions in life, as moons. Well, not quite, but sometimes it feels like it...
 
Especially with the change in seasons, I am aware of being a part of nature. actually influenced by my surroundings, as Fall approaches there’s sort of “hunkering down to home” feeling in the air. Do you feel it too?
 
I appreciated that energy so much 41 years ago.

It is quite an appropriate time of year to snuggle in and burrow deep into the comfort and slower pace that Fall, and being a new mom, seems to bring on…

What about you? What are you feeling as these crisper cooler evenings approach us...