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Finding Summer

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   While summer break is ending in the US, it's only just half way over in St Kitts. I can't quite wrap my head around the "1st day of school" photos that have been on my Facebook feed today. Or summer for that matter, or fall, or winter, or spring. Gone are all my typical seasonal markers that helped me know how time was passing. Is "more hot" a season? I think it is here.   Our kids are getting an extra long summer. With our first guest arriving June 7th, we finished school just in time on June 6th. Then we have spent the summer enjoying one visitor or preparing for another. We love visitors! But they also make for a schedule-free week, or in this case, 5 weeks. With two kids who thrive on routine (don't all kids?), we were soon met with cries of, "We don't want to go back to the beach!" or, "Can't we just stay home?" I felt bad for Aaron's parents, our last visitors, because we had hit a wall before their time on t