in this moment

Yesterday I found myself overwhelmed (in the most wonderful of ways) by the light streaming through the trees. The green was just so green and as I was savoring the visceral experience of being bathed in speckled green light, it occurred to me that it will soon look very different.

Have you had that experience where you know something…like that summer always turns into fall…and then all of the sudden in one moment you feel it and you know it on a much deeper level? 

I love those moments.

We are heading north next week to attend a homeschool family camp. I signed us up for it back in January when I was certain that homeschooling was the right path for our family – a decision I publicly recanted here this past spring.

Where we will go next year is still very much being discussed and many options are being explored and dreamed about, but I know for sure that we are meant to be at this camp. And that our decision to keep Lily at Miss Anne’s rather than enrolling her in kindergarten was the right one for her and for our family.

And I know that I am feeling much softer about the whole issue.

And as I focus on how I want their education experience to feel, rather than the form it will take, more and more wonderful options are beginning to appear on the horizon.

When we return it will officially be autumn and nearly October. And the glorious greens will fade into yellows and reds and browns. And eventually most of the trees around us will be bare. The growing season at our CSA farm will be winding down. There will be harvest dinners and hayrides and pumpkins to gather.

But in this moment the world around me is beautifully, majestically, gorgeously green!

And amidst the scurrying and packing and list-making and multi-tasking that goes along with family vacations, I paused to savor and enjoy and celebrate and photograph it…

…and I am so glad that I did.