It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year?!?!?!

Years ago Staples had a very funny back to school commercial with a background song playing"It's the most wonderful time of the year".  It showed a mom and dad joyfully dancing (kind of like ballet moves) and pushing a shopping cart full of school supplies through the store.  This time of year brings about a bittersweet feeling for me.  While I love the smell of a fresh pad of paper, the look of a sharp pencil, the feel of a new pen and the promise of the new curriculum for my kiddos that I have researched over the past few months, the bitter part ... it sort of marks the end of summer.  And oh how I love summer!!!!  That, to me, is the "most wonderful time of the year".  I love shorts, t-shirts, sandals, warm, long days, ice cream, cantaloupe, fresh corn and okra, summer reads, boating, camping, a nice color to my skin, running, swinging on my screened-in back porch, and the hum of the air conditioner!!!