What She Said
It’s summertime and the living is fine. Well, maybe it can be. When I was younger, I looked forward to summer months. It meant no school, of course. But it also meant less responsibilities. It meant long, lazy days of doing nothing but what pleased me. It meant waking up everyday and deciding what would make me feel good today.
Fast forward a whole lot of years and many children later, I have started to dread summer. There seems to be so much pressure involved! Teachers send the kids home with “summer learning packets” and reading lists. So you try to fill your children’s days with the perfect balance of entertainment and education. Everyone making competitive summer plans to make sure they are making the most , fun, expensive exclusive vacation so they can take great pics and post them on Instagram in the fall and hashtag them #takemeback
Not to mention the pressure starting way back in February to be ready to unveil your perfectly toned, fit, thick or whatever the trend is this year”summer body”
This summer my promise is give all that up. This is my summer of #selflove and sanity. I promise to be lazy sometimes and not worry about whether the kids read for the allotted 30 minutes every single day. I will let them be bored and play video games for way too long. I will wander around my neighborhood parks and push the kids on the swings and not stress about not being able to make it to a big amusement park. I’ll take my kids out for ice cream cones and eat them too. I will read what I want and stay in bed for way too long. And whatever is under this bathing suit is my perfect summer body and I’m gonna love it, flaunt it and do belly flops in the pool with it.
And that’s #whatshesaid xoxo Shevvy Malibu