Summer is in full swing in the Midwest.  We are entering our 5th day of 90+ degree weather and the kids are quickly learning to keep themselves busy in this heat.  When I think about my house and how much I would love to move to a newer home–one that isn’t a brick oven and wasn’t built during the depression, I think about my kids and our neighbors.  The houses on either side of us are filled with children of the same age groups as my kids.  They play together constantly–ride bikes in the alley, play imaginative games in our connected city front yards, eat treats from the ice cream man, argue and problem solve.  I watch them and I think about how awesome my childhood was–full of summer friends and playing outside all day long.

I watch the kids and think this is exactly what summer should be and that my decisions need to be about what is best for my kids and our little brick city house is just right for now.