Summer is a promissory note signed in June

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Friday people in the house. We've made it through the short but perilous week following the first three day weekend of unofficial summer. Let's give ourselves a collective round of applause.

June has always been the harbinger of good tidings - the end of school, longer days, more light, flowers in bloom, the opening of pools, the return of lightening bugs. It's also always the month my family spent a week at the shore so even though I no longer do that, it always screams vacation to me. June is a reliable old broad who still shows up with her arms full of gifts.

This week, the birthdays of my two Kims, my brother Stephen, and Jana (1, 5, 4, and 5 respectively). Later in the month, Michelle, my two cousins, and a big one for my mom this year: 60. We'll be celebrating her at the shore next weekend. And of course we celebrate the Dads this month as well for Father's Day.

I'm also going to get my Philly on this month, and report back here on visits to Magic Gardens, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Liberty Observation Deck.

Jana and I will be rendezvousing with our booknerd friends on June 14 for the next installment of Show Us Your Books.

What I'm not doing? Adding any more books to my library request list. Aside from reading my current library books and any that come in because I'm not playing with fire, I'll be reading books I already have - either sitting on a shelf at home, or sitting on my kindle already downloaded. Do you guys have any books sitting around that you just haven't read? Maybe June can be the month you work through them! I'm joining Dani and Erin for the Read My Books Challenge and will finally get some of my shelf sitters into the read column. I don't really enjoy book challenges, but this one seems good to me...as long as I can ignore the seductive call of the library request list.

Sara and I are hosting our seasonal goal link up for summer goals on Friday, June 17. If you have a summer bucketlist, I hope you join us.

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And music. There's a quote from Outer Banks by Anne Rivers Siddons that I can't quite put my finger on, but it's something about our music flowing like wine through the late spring. This month MFD and I will see Dolly Parton together and Paul Simon with Stephen and Aubrey. I cannot wait.

Thanks in advance, June, for your bountiful blessings. I hope you have some good stuff on your calendars. Anything this weekend?