A Day

When you wake up at 6 on the wrong side of the bed, and scream at the sight of breakfast, and end up doing this at 10:30 instead of noon

and then spend the afternoon playing with your cousins instead of napping, and then visiting the library, and the evening doing this

and this, and playing at the beach,

chances are you'll look like this at 8:00 when you finally get home.

And this is how I ended up putting my daughter to bed with dirty feet, a chocolate-smeared dress, and hopefully very happy dreams. Everyone deserves a summer.